If your employer forced you to either use Google or Microsoft or some other tech company (Apple, Samsung, etc.) what would be a better choice?
Which company is more compliant in terms of privacy or generally better and why?
I was thinking about Google since there were new regulations enforced by government and at least I don’t have to pay for Google Docs, unlike Microsoft where I pay and I’m still spied on.
Also a Google employee. Can confirm, most engineers mean well and are very good at what they do, but that doesn’t mean our bloated codebases are secure and outside of launch security and privacy reviews (which are easily waived) almost no one even considers privacy or security implications in design or engineering.
What worries me is when they start missing earnings reports and some vp decides he has a clever idea to monetize previously unmonetized data.
That sounds terrifying, but it’s also just a possibility and they would have a debate about it.