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Sounds believable to me. Google is really good at data warehouse & database tech (BigQuery, BigTable, Spanner) and access management systems, as well as sturdy custom-built tools for internal use by employees.

Even though it might not be intentional, Apple is lagging at such tooling.

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Yep. As another user pointed out, privacy tooling is a very hard problem across a large company. When you have a cloud platform, you're especially incentivized to build a robust solution for this.

I would imagine AWS and Microsoft also have a thorough tooling solution.

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