So they fired an ethics leader because she thought something unethical might be going on and was taking steps to investigate it by automating a review of her email, or something like that.
It seems she may have been passing on some of that information to persons outside of Google, which isn't great, but I also don't see much in the way of details on what that actually entailed, so it's hard to judge how inappropriate those actions might have been. Either way, still a bad look for Google.
Remembering the mid 00's, it's always jarring to juxtapose "Don't be Evil" with how they currently operate.
I don't know. I agree it's probably a job-ending move in most cases, but until the details are available I'll withhold full judgement. Also has she confirmed this, or is it just what Google is claiming? If they simply want her gone, they're probably not above making a mountain out of a molehill.
another way to frame it is she got fired for transferring a bulk dump of her corporate email to someone outside the company. I'm extremely sympathetic to the cause but I don't think it does any good to have such a blinkered approach to what happened
It seems she may have been passing on some of that information to persons outside of Google, which isn't great, but I also don't see much in the way of details on what that actually entailed, so it's hard to judge how inappropriate those actions might have been. Either way, still a bad look for Google.
Remembering the mid 00's, it's always jarring to juxtapose "Don't be Evil" with how they currently operate.