Lea Kissner's job is making sure Google products protect the privacy of users
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#2Reads very propagandy esp considering the timing. The fb drama is justcooling off, what better way to promote an fb competitor than talking about this.
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#3This will probably go about as well as Alex Stamos protecting the private data of Facebook users (and, I suppose, Yahoo users before that).
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#4Reads very propagandy esp considering the timing. The fb drama is justcooling off, what better way to promote an fb competitor than talking about this.
Reminds me of this pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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#5> The fundamental challenge... is making computing systems that people feel comfortable using. “They don’t feel safe, they don’t feel trust... Does this company have my best interests at heart at all?..”
Making users feel good about surrendering data, defined as “protecting privacy”.
Google’s positioning on the current furor is pretty interesting.
Specifically the preferred corporate definition of ‘privacy’ to mean...
> Being respectful of a user can be as simple as giving her a way to respond to a product that bothers her, whether its an ad for a chicken recipe that’s not relevant for her because she’s a vegetarian or an abusive message that she wants to report.
... Funnel-optimization (“user trust”), and enhanced personal data collection.
Very Googley.
#changetheworld
Re: Lea Kissner's job is making sure Google products protect the privacy of users
#6It's interesting to me that the article mentions Yonatan Zunger, since he left Google in July 2017. Before working in the Privacy team (as a Distinguished Engineer), he was Chief Architect for G+.
His short stint in Privacy (8 months) before quitting Google for a startup makes me nervous. But maybe I'm reading too much and he just needed to move on from Google after 14 years.
https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger
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#7Reads very propagandy esp considering the timing. The fb drama is justcooling off, what better way to promote an fb competitor than talking about this.
Not even necessarily promoting a competitor as much as trying to reassure people who are already very nervous about Google's data gathering.
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#8It's interesting to me that the article mentions Yonatan Zunger, since he left Google in July 2017. Before working in the Privacy team (as a Distinguished Engineer), he was Chief Architect for G+. His short stint in Privacy (8 months) before quitting Google for a startup makes me nervous. But maybe I'm reading too much and he just needed to move on from Google after 14 years. https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger ht…
N.B. the startup he joined is run by one of his former coworkers (Laszlo Bock), another long-time Googler.
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#9It's interesting to me that the article mentions Yonatan Zunger, since he left Google in July 2017. Before working in the Privacy team (as a Distinguished Engineer), he was Chief Architect for G+. His short stint in Privacy (8 months) before quitting Google for a startup makes me nervous. But maybe I'm reading too much and he just needed to move on from Google after 14 years. https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger ht…
You can always ask him directly, rather than work in imagination. He is a friendly person.
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