One Googler Gets No Cash or Raise; Gets Fired

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]You don't have to use any of Google's products to be exploited by them. Anybody with the Firefox NoScript blocker can clearly see their presence on pretty much every website around because most websites use Google's advertisement services. Most users don't even know Google is monitoring their internet use for corporate gain. I've noticed more and more sites won't even work unless you allow Google javascript access, they are already working on subverting one of the few tools available to avoid Google's data mining practices. If that's not exploiting users personal data I don't know what is.[/citation]
Free websites stay free cause of Google services, and one of the things we agree too when using those sites is to have Google track us. I don't like having Google track me but hosting is not free and it's either free tracked sites or paying for everything. It sucks, but you can't stop ti really.

 

[descendency]

Where should I send my resume/cv?

 

[HalJordan]

Whatever happened to free speech? /sarcasm

 

[demonhorde665]

WTF, how could this information going public be bad ?? geezus its not as thoguh the employee leaked code , damn , they fire some one for bassiclaly getting them good publicity

screw google

 

[Dirtman73]

[citation][nom]Camikazi[/nom]Free websites stay free cause of Google services, and one of the things we agree too when using those sites is to have Google track us. I don't like having Google track me but hosting is not free and it's either free tracked sites or paying for everything. It sucks, but you can't stop ti really.[/citation]

I have never agreed to it, and neither should you. And stating that free websites stay free because of Google is a little specious, don't you think?

 

[trelew2k]

[citation][nom]tsnor[/nom]"Google found the leak and terminated the employee."When is the funeral ?[/citation]
They surely did it by hiring a Terminator, a T800 one. There was no funeral because the T800 used a "phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range" AND because of that the-once-human-guy was reduced to ashes. Maybe there was a discrete service after all.

 

[Guest]

Job interview
"you got fired from google?"
-"yea"
"gtfo"

 

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]You don't have to use any of Google's products to be exploited by them. Anybody with the Firefox NoScript blocker can clearly see their presence on pretty much every website around because most websites use Google's advertisement services. Most users don't even know Google is monitoring their internet use for corporate gain. I've noticed more and more sites won't even work unless you allow Google javascript access, they are already working on subverting one of the few tools available to avoid Google's data mining practices. If that's not exploiting users personal data I don't know what is.[/citation]

I want to be exploited. I'm just not sure I have anything to be exploited.

 

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]Dirtman73[/nom]I have never agreed to it, and neither should you. And stating that free websites stay free because of Google is a little specious, don't you think?[/citation]

It would have to be more convincing to be specious. It falls well short of that. It sounds plain wrong.

 

[razorblaze42]

I've been saying Google is the devil for years... they're become worst than Microsoft... if thats possible!!!!!!

 

[stromm]

"Isn't it ironic that a company built on exploiting personal data fired the one guy that exploited their own?"
Isn't it sad that people still think what they put on the Internet and openly broadcast beyond their home/business is "personal" and private?

 

[aaron88_7]

[citation][nom]razorblaze42[/nom]I've been saying Google is the devil for years... they're become worst than Microsoft... if thats possible!!!!!![/citation]
I think their company motto "Don't be evil" is inviting unscrupulous/evil deeds. Nobody wakes up one morning and says to themself, "I think today I'll do a few evil deeds this week." Instead it's people or groups of people doing what they believe is good, which often isn't always the case.

When it comes down to it Google is run by a nerd that could care less about how he uses people's personal information. Most people upset by Google's practices are the very people Eric Schmidt could never get along with growing up, so why would he care about normal people's concerns? This is a guy that thinks you should never do anything you might later be embarrassed by, instead everybody should be perfect and live lives as boring as his were when he was a teenager.

 

[ender21]

[citation][nom]stromm[/nom]"Isn't it ironic that a company built on exploiting personal data fired the one guy that exploited their own?"Isn't it sad that people still think what they put on the Internet and openly broadcast beyond their home/business is "personal" and private?[/citation]

Define "openly." You mean like locking down everything I can think of but still having the info get out due to loopholes I didn't forsee nor read about in any EULA? Yeah I guess that's "openly."

To me "openly" is seeing a popup that says something like "If you want some or all of your personal data mined for usage by us or third parties, press 'yes.' If you want all of your data protected and NONE of it mined by us or third parties, press 'no.' Examples of this data could be your phone number, in some cases your address, the very same info from your friends and family no matter what their privacy settings are, and if exploited by non-sanctioned third parties, even credit card/financial info." If I THEN press "yes," I think that would come closer to the definition of the phrase "openly broadcast."

 

[ultameca]

you people don't see a problem because you are communists... and there is no doubt the new america loves communism, that's why most of the stuff we buy is from communist china.

 

[o0RaidR0o]

[citation][nom]tsnor[/nom]"Google found the leak and terminated the employee."When is the funeral ?[/citation]
+1 for good word double meaning.

 

[o0RaidR0o]

The one thing I find disturbing about all this, is that the man works at a high tech company, and yet was stupid enough, and I'm guessing here, that he used a computer from within Google, or used a Google account. What surfing over to an anonymous email site was a bit to much for him?

 

[eddieroolz]

Sucks to be the guy, but when leaking anything you're running a certain amount of risk.

 

[milktea]

To Google HR: Next time you hire someone, make sure that they won't leak company's internal info to the public.

 

[Antimatter79]

[citation][nom]jitpublisher[/nom]Leak private company info to the press, what did he expect? Hope he is back at Google in a less official capacity? Are you serious? He is going to have a tough time finding a job anywhere after this. I certainly wouldn't hire anyone who was fired from his previous position for leaking confidential company information. Better get your Wal Mart greeter skills up to buff, because that is what you are going to be doing the rest of your life.[/citation]

He's about 40 years to young for that door greeter job, he better keep looking, or wait it out.

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]Camikazi[/nom]We opening and willingly give Google our information, they don't exactly exploit it from us. We use their services and their EULA says they can use our info, it's not exploit, but giving an internal only company memo to the press is a violation of company policy almost everywhere. Gotta say as smart as Googlers are this guy was pretty damn stupid.[/citation]
I didn't send them any pictures of my house, but that doesn't stop them from publishing one. Google is the new Microsoft - too big to stop from taking whatever it wants and using it to make money.