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Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users
bonch writes "Former Google employee David Barksdale accessed user accounts to spy on call logs, chat transcripts, contact lists. As a Site Reliability Engineer, Barksdale had access to the company's most sensitive information and even unblocked himself from a teen's buddy list. He met the minors through a Seattle technology group. Angry parents cut off contact with him and complained to Google, who quietly fired him."
...the question is: what's his
Trolling is a art,
Holy shit, Pope Benedict must be a majority shareholder at Google!
Monstar L
And the quietly letting him go rather than warning others about this persons actions is ... whose policy?
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The Catholic Church's?
"Research something" or "Research something"?
In space no-one can hear your vuvuzela.
He - David Barksdale, notorious harasser of vulnerable teens, I mean - shares a name with a more famous chap, who will remain at the top of Google searches. Unless enough people start referring to David Barksdale primarily in the context of the famous freaky violator of childrens' privacy. You know, David Barksdale. The freaky creepy weird fucked up emotionally stunted probably-not-a-pederast basket case fired by Google for stalking children. That guy.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
...let's not hang a man in the realm of public opinion...
You're new here, aren't you?
oh...we can NOW!
...the fucking Cloud.
So new that Slashdot hasn't had time to assign them a user ID.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
Could you post your date of birth and mother's maiden name, too? Thanks!
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Why can't I friend Anonymous Coward under the zoo system?!!!
I think Anonymous Coward is a pretty cool guy. He tells it like it is and isn't afraid of anything.