It continues to impress me that Google says it hires smart people, trains them not to put incriminating evidence in emails (really), and then hires managers who then put an entire chain into email (probably also archived as a group) and get the company written up on the front page of the NY Times (the very criteria they try to scare you with).
Just remember, for every screwup like this there's 100x more nefarious deeds that were properly kept secret.
I'm curious about what happened to the employees who complained about the dark patterns to prevent disabling location tracking. Clearly management knew this dysfunction was all by design and was smart enough not to write it down. If you're too user focused do you get sidelined and pushed out?
Perhaps those people are prioritizing making sure they personally have done the right thing (or more cynically, are covering their own asses) over shielding Google.
