Google Shut Out Privacy and Security Teams from Secret China Project
After working at Google for 10 years and leaving recently, I'll say one thing: Yonatan Zunger is a highly ethical and honest person, and I am pretty sure what he is saying here is accurate, and if so, it looks like Google's leadership went out of its way to avoid the normal processes that ensure its products are secure and private (Google is very good at privacy, notwithstanding many complaints otherwise).Although I personally wanted Google to return to China (never wanted it to leave in the first place), I don't have confidence that the team doing this was ethical or honest with the rest of the company, and in a company where employees have a surprisingly large amount of power like Google, that is an unforced error.