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Two senior Google employees recently acknowledged that the company's products do not protect user privacy. This is quite a departure from the norm at Google, where statements about privacy are usually thick with propaganda , mistruths and often outright deception . Google's products do not meet the privacy needs of journalists, bloggers, small businesses (or anyone else concerned about government surveillance). Last week, I published an op-ed in the New York Times that focused on the widespread ignorance of computer security among journalists and news organizations. Governments often have no need to try and compel a journal ist to reveal the identity of their sources if they can simply obtain stored communication records from phone, email and social networking companies. Will DeVries, Google's top DC privacy lobbyist soon posted a link to the article on his Google+ page, and added the following comment: I often disagree with Chris, but when he's right, he's dead right. Journalists (and bloggers, and small businesses) need to take a couple hours and learn to use free, widely available security measures to store data and communicate. Let me first say that I really respect Will. Many of the people in Google's policy team default to propaganda mode when questioned. Will does not do this - he either speaks truthfully, or declines to comment. I wish companies would hire more people like him, as they significantly boost the credibility o ...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Two honest Google employees: our products don't protect your privacy
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