The World is a fine Place and worth fighting for, I believe in the latter part. - Ernest Hemmingway, Andrew Kevin Walker

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Google Engineer had access to pretty much any personal info he wanted...

...used it to taunt children. He doesn't seem to be a paedo or anthing he just liked showing off how much data he could access by bullying young teenagers. Probably the more worrying aspect about this given how apparently IT people in any company have access to huge amounts of data wherever they work, Google just has more than most (posted on a google owned blog - Tony), is that Google took 4 months to realise this was going on and then made their investigations increasingly opaque to the families of the children involved and the wider world.

Random tangent; for some reason this lead to discussion of Roz Ho who is pretty bad at her job in that she has lost Microsoft literally billions of dollars. So here is a fun compare and contrast activity, search both Google and bing for just her name:
Google
bing

Oddly it seems Bing can't find any articles critical of Ms Ho.

thanks tony

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