The question this raises: does Google consider the status quo of universal consumer surveillance that it has helped deploy around the world a baseline norm? Or do people's cultural expectations of basic privacy (which lag many years behind the reality) still have a chance?
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What's weird about this moment is that founders and higher-ups at Google have enough clout and residual idealism that they could move the company's entire business model away from mass surveillance and investors and shareholders would just have to accept it.
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Similarly, Google employees have skills that are so hard to find in quantity that they could collectively demand changes to the core business model, and those demands would be met, as Google cannot afford to antagonize its workforce. But these windows of opportunity are closing.
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"Internationally accepted norms"
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After careful thinking, Google has determined they will not violate international norms. Bold way to draw a line in the sand guys!
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If this is true everyone should resign from Google
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