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> My team at Google has a pretty broad mandate which gives us a fair bit of freedom.

The other points might be fair but this would have to be the exception rather than the rule in private industry and even Google I would image would never give enough leeway to someone to "monitor volcanoes with sensor networks"

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The sensor networks research was work I did at Harvard prior to joining Google. I don't think Google is very interested in my deploying sensor networks on volcanoes, although (to be fair) I have not asked.

google.org might be, if there's a humanitarian spin on it.

Interesting example, as I actually know people at a company that have that kind of leeway. And are actually doing it. :)

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