I was a Google engineer, team lead on the Play Store. I know what data we collected, but I also know controls around accessing it were very strict (rumor is in

I was a Google engineer, team lead on the Play Store. I know what data we collected, but I also know controls around accessing it were very strict (rumor is in the early days of GMail an employee was caught accessing his girlfriend's email, so they went full lockdown). There were tables we could access for reporting and analytics that were aggregated heavily for anonymity. Anything that needed deeper metrics required sign offs from a pretty high level. VP if it was unique and sensitive enough. Yeah, other business areas may operate differently, but every area I worked in took this stuff pretty seriously.