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It’s great to state intent, but when exactly it’s supposed to happen? Also, strangely enough, this post is by “Privacy Engineering Director”, but google’s mess
by vl 3y ago
It’s great to state intent, but when exactly it’s supposed to happen?
Also, strangely enough, this post is by “Privacy Engineering Director”, but google’s messaging is not implemented by privacy team, so is this going to be “privacy team developed proof-of-concept abandonware” to be never picked up by the product team?
- uoaei 3y agoI'm familiar with some parts of that team and I can say there is no capacity for development of proof-of-concepts. They are not engineers in the way you're thinking.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoWhat does that even mean? I think it's entirely reasonable to ask if this has a chance of being adopted and supported long term (and entirely reasonable to not be particularly polite about it). Google has a long history of abandoning products that aren't ads or search, especially messaging products. Nearly forty messaging products by my count.
- theptip 3y agoI read this as “your very specific hypothesis of team structure leading to abandonware is factually incorrect” implying it’s some other team building it and therefore we have no idea how much resource is invested in this. As a counterpoint, the DMA is requiring “Gatekeepers” like Google to enable interoperability for their messaging systems, so this protocol (or some other alternative implementation) is likely required to avert billions of dollars of fines.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoRight, but abandoning projects at Google is an endemic problem. The specifics of a team are almost entirely irrelevant.
- uoaei 3y agoWhat it means is, if it is ever created, the privacy engineers will be acting in a guidance and advisory role and not actually literally building the product.