If your employer forced you to either use Google or Microsoft or some other tech company (Apple, Samsung, etc.) what would be a better choice?
Which company is more compliant in terms of privacy or generally better and why?
I was thinking about Google since there were new regulations enforced by government and at least I don’t have to pay for Google Docs, unlike Microsoft where I pay and I’m still spied on.
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I worked there, I didn’t like them before, I like them only slightly less after. That’s the closest to a ringing endorsement I can give to a company that size.
They do actually mean well, even if they are a weird combination of brilliant and incredibly stupid.
Still, they have a concept of shame and guilt which is something very few other companies have, specifically they have pride, stupid, childish pride but still.
They’re an odd combination of too stupid to be evil easily, they have to work harder at it.
But no, I still wouldn’t trust them, eventually someone who understands will figure it out and you can never delete your data from them.
They don’t follow the EU law of deleting data after request?
I’m sure they have a process to do that, it was drilled into us that there were regulations and procedures they had to respect for each country.
While I marginally trust them now, I wouldn’t trust them to the indefinite future, desperate MBAs are capable of anything.
Also a Google employee. Can confirm, most engineers mean well and are very good at what they do, but that doesn’t mean our bloated codebases are secure and outside of launch security and privacy reviews (which are easily waived) almost no one even considers privacy or security implications in design or engineering.
What worries me is when they start missing earnings reports and some vp decides he has a clever idea to monetize previously unmonetized data.
That sounds terrifying, but it’s also just a possibility and they would have a debate about it.