I mean that management obviously has plans for Google’s business that are incompatible with having an engaged workforce and a transparent organization. We know one of those plans — filtered search for 1.4bn Chinese users — but there’s no reason to believe it ends there.
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You think they might be planning to build out some creepy global surveillance network?
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I think that they might monetize and share user profiles/models in ways they currently don’t. Or maybe they’re not planning it, but it will eventually be on the table. Frankly I can’t tell you what they’ll do, just that their data collection is astounding and keeps growing. 1/
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For example: right now they’re combining online data with real-world data like credit card purchases in ways that 10 years ago would have seemed impossible and/or outraged us. But today that’s just “oh well of course Google needs that.” 2/
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When you combine real time location with purchases, with every search, with health data, and add advanced machine learning, is there really anything Google doesn’t know about us? What mitigates this is that so far they’ve been “benignly” using it to just serve us Sprite ads. 3/
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And we used to believe that if they ever did anything truly evil with that capability, our good tech buddies at Google would find out and blow the whistle. But obviously the point of all this management effort is to make sure that won’t ever happen. ///
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
I really vehemently disagree on this. It just feeds a moral vanity among people who are, thanks to their frightening intellect, the best rationalizers on earth.
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Oh no. Many of them are actively excited about corporate abuse. Go read HN.
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I'm sure the internal memes are devastating too.
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The serious point is that Google’s transparency plus a large, relatively politically diverse employee base, really *was* a good tool for detecting sketchy moves on the part of management. The Dragonfly leak really validated this. And that’s precisely what management is removing.
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