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Maybe Google's data trove is blackmail-profitable? If someone evil working for Google looks at a millionaire's private data, will they be able to blackmail the
by fxtentacle 5y ago
Maybe Google's data trove is blackmail-profitable?
If someone evil working for Google looks at a millionaire's private data, will they be able to blackmail them for more money than what they lose if Google fires and potentially sues them?
I'd be really interested in the answer, because if it is yes, then Google is surely collecting way too much information and it is actually somewhat reasonable for people to "game the system" and take advantage of it. Of course, I fully agree that it is illegal and unethical, but so are shoplifting and robbing people at gunpoint, and both of it sadly still happens quite regularly.
Also, I remember a while ago reading about some sort of professional insurance and broker that celebrities use to pay off what is effectively journalists attempting to blackmail them.
"Schmidt has a reputation for contacting celebrities in advance of trying to publicly sell private photos or videos to see if they want to purchase them back."
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-471218/Sultan-Sleaze-arrested-Tom-Cruise-extortion-plot.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-471218/Sultan-...
https://www.businessinsider.com/10-victims-of-celebrity-blackmail-and-extortion-2012-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/10-victims-of-celebrity-blac...
- bhawks 5y ago> I'd be really interested in the answer, because if it is yes, then Google is surely collecting way too much information An example from the article has an employee listening to children's voicemail. Google operates a voicemail service. It is not clear to me how you would operate a voicemail service without storing that data somewhere. (Yes e2e encryption, however let's acknowledge that is very uncommon). Google operates a number of services (docs, Gmail, photos, etc) that require the storage of sensitive data and I am actually happy they have programs that seem to be catching internal abuses.