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It's unfortunate that the headline sounds like pure clickbait, because the story contains examples of Google's behavior being more suspicious than the headline
by yongjik 6y ago
It's unfortunate that the headline sounds like pure clickbait, because the story contains examples of Google's behavior being more suspicious than the headline suggests.
But, as far as the title is concerned, it seems common sense to prevent employees from talking about potentially very expensive legal issues, when every internal emails and chat logs can be potentially quote-mined by adversaries in future lawsuits.
(Disclaimer: worked at Google before.)
- dannyw 6y agoQuote mining isn’t a possibility, it’s an inevitability. Now here’s something: if corporations like Google are worried about quote mining, what does this mean for your personal search history, and how you may face in a secret court for some “national security” charge in 2027?
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y agoYou can enable activity history auto-delete on this page: https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols?pli=1&authuser=0 https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols?pli=1&authuse...
- yongjik 6y agoI don't think the threat model is comparable. Quote-mining is a problem for Google because it's an effective strategy between multinational companies wielding a hundred lawyers. On the other hand, if the government decides I'm a terrorist, they will "take care of" me, and they don't need some stinking search log to justify their action.