Re:Margaret Mitchell fired from Google
by simonh on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:17AM
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I can understand maybe showing an email or several perhaps to a lawyer, a court might well consider that reasonable even if it's a technical violation, or just give a warning. It's a matter of proportionality. Breaking a speed limit by a few mph won't get you banned from driving. This is completely different though, it was an automated query trawling and exfiltrating vast quantities of mail threads.
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Re:Margaret Mitchell fired from Google
by pseudalopex on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:45AM
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An unidentified source alleged she used a script to find messages. That doesn't mean she copied the messages without reviewing them.[1]
[1] https://www.axios.com/scoop-google-is-investigating-the-acti...
All of which she was already involved in. It’s not like she didn’t have the info already.
That's not the point. Exfiltrating the data means it's available to non-employees (and it appears she did send it to non-employees which is by itself a clear and prosecutable violation), is not protected by the company's security and privacy policies, and would still be available to her beyond her period of employment. She's not entitled to do any of those things, especially since as you say she had access to the info as an employee anyway so she had no legitimate excuse.