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Comment by lucidrains | Hacker News Reader

Yikes, didn't know this was an issue at Google as well. That is scary

These days pretty sure things are much more regulated and locked down for the giants. It would take a conspiracy with multiple employees in the right groups to access that type of data and there'd be a trail that gets detected fast.

You mean like when some eBay execs banded together to harass a user?

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/30/1126078948/live-spiders-and-c...

Wow! Never heard about that. The narrative is usually: Some rando, low-level employee went rogue. As soon as BigCorp was made aware of the situation, the rando was terminated and law enforcement was notified. BigCorp conducted an internal audit and found no other data was accessed. Nothing to see here.

Thank God for "state-affiliated media" (https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-...)

That may not be a good example because it is not clear if it involved those eBay execs actually improperly accessing information that eBay had.

It seems to be a campaign by eBay execs who were physically harassing a couple that published a newsletter the execs did not like. That would only require finding out where they live.

I just found that out in a few minutes from information on their website and a guess that they probably live not too far away from where their company is, followed by a public records search based on that guess which verified that the guess was right and gave me their address.

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