Weren't those controls added after some Googler stalked teenagers[1] via their chats for months? That event generated bad publicity in the press, and some years

Weren't those controls added after some Googler stalked teenagers[1] via their chats for months? That event generated bad publicity in the press, and some years later, the same thing happened at Uber, with the euphemism "LoveOPS" being used, IIRC. High-growth companies prefer to prioritize features and kick the access control can down the lane until they absolutely have to. Without looking at revenue and employee numbers, I suspect 2010 Google and 2016-ish Uber are comparable to current Twitter, IMO. Edit: the Googler story is far worse that I remembered: he had unfettered access to underaged victims' mailboxes, chat logs, contacts and Voice accounts and used that information to taunt one victim, and unblocked himself from another victim who had blocked him on Gchat - Google only became aware of it when it was reported externally. 1. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats-2010-9?amp https://www.businessinsider.com/google-engineer-stalked-teen...