Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup

An anonymous reader sends in an interesting story from Mocality, a company that painstakingly built a business directory in Kenya. When they discovered that somebody was systematically harvesting the contact information they'd collected (and after a few very odd phone calls from confused Kenyan business owners), they set up a sting to see what was really going on. They swapped out the phone numbers listed for a few businesses with phone numbers in their own call centers, and then waited to see who called. Mocality was shocked to discover it was Google Kenya, who falsely claimed a business collaboration with Mocality, and then lied about Mocality's business practices.

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Re:Do no evil indeed

[SydShamino]

Maybe it was Eric Schmidt himself who told them to do this. But we really have no way of knowing

Corporations are people according to SCOTUS. People who engage in fraud with their mouth and left arm can't claim their brain and right arm didn't know about it. The judge in any such case should assume (and order the jury to assume) that if any Google employee knew about the fraud, then Eric Schmidt also knew about the fraud.