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Re:Margaret Mitchell fired from Google by bg24 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:06AM (#26202027)
What is a business-sensitive data? If I am working on my laptop and download a 1GB customer orders CSV to my laptop for analysis, is that sensitive data? Who does not do it?

Private data for other employees - is that like downloading the accessible intranet profile of an user (say in the HR portal), or hacking into HR portal to download their private info? In a 1k+ employee company, who does not look up employee details everyday?

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Re:Margaret Mitchell fired from Google by knorker on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:45AM (#26202686)
Your personal laptop?

Well, first of all how do you have access to bulk download PII?

Second, yes at FANG this meant you not only had to go around policy, but also technical means. And there's lots of training saying "don't do that".

At smaller companies it's ok to let PII flow. At FANG not so much. They really want to stop having EU fines and be dragged in front of congress.

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