> 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 em

> 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.