Gawker broke a story named Google Engineer Stalked Teens, Spied on Chats. I’ll quote the beginning…
I bet a lot of the Googlers who read this blog know David. Google of course fired him, but many are saying Google should have turned him over to the police.
In short, a company’s founders, leaders, principles may not be “evil” or whatever Google claims they are not. But when you hire so many people, even with a very detailed hiring process, some will turn out to be evil. We all know, the people who make up the company define the company.
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