Comment by fweespeech | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fweespeech | Hacker News Reader

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> And yet not one single instance of Google misusing their collected advertising info exists. All of the dumping on Google Services has, to the day I write this, proven to be absolute FUD without a single concrete thing to point at.

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http://www.theweek.co.uk/google/11581/google-worker-fired-fo...

> But further examples of Barksdale's abuse of his privileges were more serious. Earlier this spring, he viewed call logs from Google Voice in order to identify the girlfriend of a 15-year-old boy, who had refused to name her. Barksdale then taunted the boy and threatened to call his girlfriend.

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Not a single instance of a Google employee misusing info? Not one you say?

A failure of internal controls qualifies as a problem just as serious as intentional abuse of it.

You conveniently left out the word "advertising". Employees misusing admin access is a threat with any company you may do business with.

> You conveniently left out the word "advertising". Employees misusing admin access is a threat with any company you may do business with.

Then you shouldn't have replied to me and changed the context?

The context was information in Google's possession.

You tried to narrow it to advertising after I replied which is, at best, silly.

EDIT:

> ..did you read the original post?

You replied to me and tried to plays devil advocate. The context of my words is the one that is relevant, not your attempt to shift the goal posts into some narrow land of the absurd where you get to pretend the fact information Google collects ultimately gets abused isn't a privacy problem.

So just stop, honestly. Your position as absurd as storing plain text passwords because "Well, there has never been an official policy of abusing that information."

Rogue admins, hackers, etc. are all valid threats to privacy when the information is stored in an easily transportable form and the fact that isn't obvious to you terrifies me that you are somehow a professional sysadmin.

..did you read the original post?

My original words are: "And yet not one single instance of Google misusing their collected advertising info exists."

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