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I suppose the impeccable ethics of google employees are the reason google is such a reliably ethical company? Uh... So, google is not that, and has not been th

I suppose the impeccable ethics of google employees are the reason google is such a reliably ethical company? Uh... So, google is not that, and has not been that for a very long time. Yes, this case is probably a coincidence, maybe it isn't, but the idea that google engineers would rise up for spying a teensy but more than they already do is just not reality. Alphabet employees aren't ethicists in a position to protect people from the inertia of a trillion dollar company and it is outright crazy to suggest that's the case.

Laremere 4y ago
My point was perhaps lost in the pursuit of brevity. It's not that the ethical people could stop Google from doing bad things. It's that there's bound to be people outspoken in the event that Google is secretly spying on you. It's the kind of thing you'd see a leak making it to the front page of New York Times. Like, Google monitors what you do. A lot. However they also are pretty clear about how they spy on you. There are cases where they misstep (like the recent tracking settlement where they're forced to be more clear about location tracking), but a secret conspiracy to record everything you do with your devices would take a large team and serious resources.