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You are very wrong about all of this btw.

You literally don’t know who I am or the roles I had. So unless you can tell me how many steps you were from Kent Walker and what you worked on I’m gonna bet a hell of a lot I know more than you.

Edit to clarify my prior point: some of the technology makes it into the product, but the putative data protections do not.

Why?

Because there is always a work around, and ads legal will approve it every time.

> You literally don’t know who I am or the roles I had.

I'm now curious. Who are you?

Saying that would make it unable for me to use HN as certain companies monitor my social media comments.

and you don't know who I am. I might have been closer to that work than you would know.

I'm Ron Burgundy ?

Why don't you say what they are wrong about then?

every single word. this is a project to enable private AI use cases which is a very real concern for a lot of enterprise customers dealing with highly sensitive data (think about healthcare and police work for example) and has nothing to do in any way shape or form with ads. The guy probably used to work or still works at Google but doesn't mean he understands what he's talking about.

The work I’m guessing yes you are aware, but not the legal side of how they allow ads to circumvent the dog and pony show you put your life into.

Thats the embarrassing part, you know “don’t be evil” went out the window years ago, yet still think you’re making a difference with your little bit shifting games. As if the moment the work you do bumped against against revenue it would hold.

when I worked at google I was known to be a very effective "legal whisperer". I spent more time in legal reviews in the last decade than you'll ever spend in the entirety of your life as I was working on infrastructure dealing with tons of PII working across the globe. I'm pretty sure I know what I'm talking about here.

yeah and I'm a Navy seal with over 300 confirmed kills etc.

Google is too internally split up to have a single cohesive "maximize ad revenue" mission, especially now that cloud is the new golden goose and the future of search/advertising is hazy.

If cloud can sell compute to enterprise that can only use FHE, then they will not give a fuck if the ad goons are disgruntled about it.

you are 100% correct, this product is to enable things like healthcare and generally AI subscription stuff that otherwise people wouldn't touch because of sensitivity to disclosing sensitive data.

You have the CEO and the VPs who have final call when there are disputes below.

Ads doesn’t care until something affects them, GCP doesn’t.

Given that Google has a single unit that does $76 billion in annual revenue, $100 billion projected, without ads, raises questions about how relevant your knowledge is.

I should have bracketed out GCP as a theoretical application for this. I was referring to the Google consumer extended universe.

Which is also learning how to monetize their offering via cloud instead of ads. So again your expertise here is questionable.

Question away, not bothered.

The distance between Kent Walker and Thomas Kurian is what you should be asking.

Ads does not have access to GCP data and there is no way legal would approve one

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