Google Privacy Director Alma Whitten Leaving

Gunkerty Jeb writes "Alma Whitten, the director of privacy at Google, is stepping down from that role and leaves behind her a complicated legacy in regards to user privacy. ... Whitten has been at Google for about 10 years, and while she has been the main public face of the company's product privacy efforts in the last couple of years, she has been involved in engineering privacy initiatives for even longer. Before becoming the privacy lead for products and engineering in 2010 in the aftermath of the Google Street View WiFi controversy, Whitten had been in charge of privacy for the company's engineering teams. During that time, she was involved in the company's public effort to fight the idea that IP addresses can be considered personally identifiable information."

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Google Privacy Director's job spec

[Anonymous Coward]

The Google Privacy Director's job spec is something like:

Design ways to squeeze the last drop of privacy blood out of users without actually killing them.

And the footnote in the job spec says:

It's OK to leave them so weak and helpless that they can't leave. Bonus points if they don't even realize that it's happening to them.

I think the Privacy Director has been quite successful. Not ethical, but successful.

Re:easiest job ever

[Opportunist]

Not really. It's one of the things where it's probably better to be the one who is behind.