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If you don't trust that the access transparency log is genuine then why on earth would your files be in G Suite in the first place?


Seriously, this.

At the end of the day, you want to trust that your provider isn't out to get you, otherwise why are you even a customer (Oracle gets a free pass, because reasons). However, you want to know that they're serious about their claims, and transparency in their tools and processes is a big part of that.


Access Transparency is a new feature, and for some reason pre existing customers used GAuite before Access Transparency.


Sure, I was one of them. But if your distrust of Google is high enough to believe that Access Transparency is basically a fake feature (i.e that there is a way for Google employees to access your files without showing up in the logs, except for legally required reasons), then I don't see how or why you would be giving them your files in the first place. I don't think that level of distrust is unreasonable -- Google has proven to be a bad actor in many scenarios -- but I just don't see how you could be a G Suite customer at that level of distrust.


because you've planted malware in sheets files and your account is a honeypot to catch the baddies




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