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Points 1 & 3 & 4 are less important when you know you're in the process of negotiating a settlement for a class action suit where you will likely lose access th
by rsstack 3y ago
Points 1 & 3 & 4 are less important when you know you're in the process of negotiating a settlement for a class action suit where you will likely lose access the the data.
And yes, I worked in AdTech. People really overestimate how many people need to know these things, and how likely people are to whistleblow when the "crimes" are morally grey.
- vkou 3y ago> People really overestimate how many people need to know these things If there's a giant friggin' third-party endpoint feeding your engine a firehose of data that the firm's whole business relies on, everyone will know about it. These systems are held together with spit and bailing wire, everything breaks all the time, everything's idiosyncrasies have to be worked around all the time, and all of the component behaviors have to be well-documented for integration and testing and release and design purposes. This might fly in a small shop, not so much in one with thousands and tens of thousands of eyes involved. The bigger you get, the harder it is to keep a secret.
- rsstack 3y ago> If there's a giant friggin' third-party endpoint feeding your engine a firehose of data that the firm's whole business relies on, everyone will know about it. But they won't know where that third-party's data came from.
- shadowgovt 3y agoOccam's razor suggests that they were to go to that much trouble, it would be much easier to just keep the data and pretend to delete it. But there are very solid reasons that isn't what they would do (see "It's impossible to keep a secret of that scale in a 100,000 person firm").