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Fascinating. You'd think you'd have to be in some kind of security type role to be able to do this if they had access / control over an extension on google empl

Fascinating. You'd think you'd have to be in some kind of security type role to be able to do this if they had access / control over an extension on google employee computers. Kind of funny seeing maybe some google naivete and the "do no evil" thing come back to bite google. When I was in high school I had a fair bit of fun going outside the permitted guidelines. By college I'd developed a reasonable sense of boundaries with other folks equipment / jobs with a trust element. If I pushed a pop-up notice out company wide with a message my employer didn't approve of, I'd definitely be expecting to be going out the door rather than doing the litigation process. Having worked a bit in govt interesting to see the NLRB pursue this, in govt my experience was a REDICULOUSLY dim view would be taken of something like this.

Eelongate 5y ago
> If I pushed a pop-up notice out company wide with a message my employer didn't approve of, I'd definitely be expecting to be going out the door rather than doing the litigation process. If it were relating to anything other than labor organization, it would be a no brainer. But there are special legal protections for labor organization, so I not sure it's clear cut in this particular circumstance.
tdeck 5y ago
> You'd think you'd have to be in some kind of security type role to be able to do this if they had access / control over an extension on google employee computers. There are a lot of employee-written extensions at Google, published in an internal Chrome web store. I even wrote one in a few days and published it. Some of them are owned by teams in one way or another, but a surprising amount of developer tooling at Google is somebody's side project.