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Amazon Investigates Employees Leaking Data for Bribes

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This is counterintelligence 101. There are four traditional motivations of insider threats (MICE): M: Money I: Ideology C: Coercion E: Ego The thinking around that is changing, but the financial motivation is still at the top of the list. [1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...

Heaven forbid any country vote for an elected official who this could apply to.

Those poor yanks.

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I find most of their standard bulk items to be consistently cheaper. Or if not cheaper, of significantly better quality. Toilet paper, for example, is usually cheaper and when it isn't, the quality of what I might find on sale is hit or miss. But the biggest draw is the Kirkland label. I'm almost always pleased with the quality for the price. And it's essentially brand name products in different packaging. You can bu…

The only thing that makes my shy away from Kirkland brand - is their urge to put “Kirkland” label on good wines and expensive single malt scotches. I mean - just keep certain things look as pure as you can, don’t plaster new label on top of everything.

I'm sure that putting their label on it is required in order to sell it cheaper than MSRP. Sort of like how hotwire can sell you a hotel for cheap, but they can't advertise the name of the hotel with the price, because that would devalue the hotel brand.

Premium brands have come to the realization, that no matter what, cheaper alternatives will compete. So why not try to capture the lower end of the market as well? A store brand lets you have your cake and eat it too.

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Do you have any reason to have that trust? Absent any evidence, I'm inclined to think that they do very little to protect my data. Had they any stringent controls in place, I feel like their PR or marketing would have communicated some of the specifics publicly.

We definitely have systems in place so that employees can not just randomly look at customer data, and when it is necessary it is always logged. Even if we need to debug customer issues we would need a good reason to look at data over just metadata. There are strict requirements for what can go in logs and dashboards also as you can imagine. > Absent any evidence, I'm inclined to think that they do very little to pro…

Well, plenty of data gets stolen all the time. Would be tough to trace it necessarily to a Google employee.

But if you say so, anonymous internet user, it must be true. (just kidding, sort of. I appreciate the info. But absent a neutral 3rd party audit, we're all just wishing and hoping.)

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Do you have any reason to have that trust? Absent any evidence, I'm inclined to think that they do very little to protect my data. Had they any stringent controls in place, I feel like their PR or marketing would have communicated some of the specifics publicly.

I think there is a widespread understanding that nosing into customer data will get you fired from Google immediately. There was a case the other year that the media picked up so I read about it. As for why they don't usually talk about it might be because (examples): - they don't want people to think about how much data they have - saying: "we punish people who abuse their positions" indirectly hints that this is ha…

Correction: "getting caught" nosing into other people's data will get you fired. Who knows how stringent the controls are.

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I think there is a widespread understanding that nosing into customer data will get you fired from Google immediately. There was a case the other year that the media picked up so I read about it. As for why they don't usually talk about it might be because (examples): - they don't want people to think about how much data they have - saying: "we punish people who abuse their positions" indirectly hints that this is ha…

Correction: "getting caught" nosing into other people's data will get you fired. Who knows how stringent the controls are.

Former employee and it's been a few years, but for what it's worth I was actually very reassured by what I saw there in terms of internal data security. For all products I worked with or knew something about in an engineering capacity, there was no unlogged access to personal data. Access to personal data without clear, approved reasons would result in termination. The controls were extremely strong.

I'd be more concerned in Google's case about "legitimate" but still problematic uses of data: disclosure to law enforcement, crazy specific ad targeting, machine learning for military applications, etc.

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Is this sarcasm?

Why would it be? Seems reasonable to not let low-level chinese employees access to company secrets given their track record.

The part about "it seems to work for them" sounds sarcastic because Apple's problems with leakers have been well publicized.

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In a company approaching a million employees, someone is doing something illegal/unethical every day. At that scale it doesn’t say anything about the culture as you are observing the outer ranges of a distribution.

This seems like a great way to give a free pass to any corporate behavior, anywhere.

Megacorp is harvesting organs and murdering people? Who cares just look at it statistically, it's only four people on the harvest team. Statistically speaking Megacorp is the most well behaved of them all!

Stop trying to look at everything through the prism of distributions, it's a bad tool in many scenarios.

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> casino cage cashiers don't make minimum wage They actually do. Google it. It's below minimum.

This is not below minimum wage:

The average Cage Cashier - Casino salary in the United States is $30,943 as of September 01, 2018, but the range typically falls between $25,713 and $39,285.

Source: Salary for Cage Cashier - Casino | Salary.com

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> casino cage cashiers don't make minimum wage They actually do. Google it. It's below minimum.

How can it possibly be below minimum?

I found no evidence they are paid less than minimum wage, but I did find some claims casino-goers in the US are expected to tip cashiers, so perhaps the assumption is they are paid a tipped minimum wage instead of a regular one? That is not how jobs seem to be advertised though.
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