This is why end-to-end encryption is so important. Only a matter of time before some employee dumps a database of highly sensitive chats, emails, etc on the internet. With e2ee that just wouldn’t matter as much.
https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Expos%C3%...
Humans do not always act in their rational self interest.
Most people would think they won't get caught and there is probably a large number of unreported cases.
Encryption doesn't really change the problem. It moves the problem from access control over the data to access control over the keys.
How could you make an e2ee calendaring service? E2ee google sites like page with groups based access control? Realtime group collaborative editors?
Any one of these features is distinctive and novel enough that if you had something that worked even in a moderate scale you could turn it into a company.
https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Expos%C3%...
> Using Google's own internal search engine, Zach discovered their six-part plan for complete information dominance and released 950 pages of these documents to the world in June 2019 with an appearance with James O'Keefe on Project Veritas, which quickly became one of their most popular stories.
Of course he's into QAnon and thinks that Covid-19 was planned: https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qqyn/an-ex-google-employee...
What a great source.