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Google Building Privacy Red Team
Trailrunner7 writes "Google, which has come under fire for years for its privacy practices and recently settled a privacy related case with the Federal Trade Commission that resulted in a $22.5 million fine, is building out a privacy 'red team,' a group of people charged with finding and resolving privacy risks in the company's products. The concept of a red team is one that's been used in security for decades, with small teams of experts trying to break a given software application, get into a network or circumvent a security system as part of a penetration test or a similar engagement. The idea is sometimes applied in the real world as well, in the form of people attempting to gain entry to a secure facility or other restricted area."
...a grizzled old Google veteran, brought out of retirement. He has a rag-tag team consisting of an arrogant young prodigy, a burnt out developer with a death wish, a hard-as-nails female programmer and a sassy ex-con who learned all his coding on the street.
They are PRIVACY RED TEAM!
I don't know if it's ALWAYS a good idea. My boss really didn't like "Show up drunk" Mondays. I guess ambulance driving isn't important enough to stress test in such a rigorous manner. Fuckers.