Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions

Re:Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full ... by shadowgovt on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @04:35PM (#21518414)

I don't think they see this as an egregious abuse of power. Googlers trust Google to do a pretty decent job of securing private information almost all of the time; this isn't an area of moral concern for them.

(i.e. the question in their minds is "Is the data safer in the source repositories?" And it's probably not).

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Re:Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full ... by JohnFen on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @06:08PM (#21519249)

The problem is that Googlers (like far too many tech companies) view data as being secure if outsiders can't get access to it. They don't count access by themselves as a security issue, even though it objectively is.

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Re:Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full ... by smueller1234 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:08PM (#21520154)

Googler here. I don't speak for Google and obviously shouldn't and won't divulge internals, but this just makes me cringe so hard: unauthorized or illegitimate access by staff is OBVIOUSLY treated as a security issue. I'm kind of shocked that folks would think otherwise.

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Re:Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full ... by JohnFen on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:02PM (#21526382)

Just to clarify, I was not referring to unauthorized or illegitimate access. I was referring to company-sanctioned access.

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