Lauren WeinsteinDec 11, 2022

Someone just mentioned the differences between #Twitter and #Google regarding user data. Yes, indeed.

I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. Anyone even attempting to access user data inappropriately is fired and marched out the door by security. This is part of why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.

Show threadPoeticLicenseDKDec 11, 2022
@lauren
What's to stop Google from going all Twitter on us?
Show threadLauren WeinsteinDec 11, 2022
@PoeticLicenseDK Well, first off, the way the company is organized it would be very difficult for a fiend like Musk to do a hostile takeover. That's a big help.
Show threadthe_breezeDec 11, 2022
@lauren @PoeticLicenseDK
I wasn’t aware that Mr. Musk’s purchase of Twitter was some sort of hostile… anything. When/where did that come out?
Show threadLauren Weinstein
@the_breeze @PoeticLicenseDK It meets the general definition. Outsider shows up at a company not for sale and demands to buy it.
Dec 11, 2022 at 7:35pmWeb
Show threadthe_breezeDec 11, 2022
@lauren @PoeticLicenseDK
Ok. That’s not quite what happened with the Musk/Twitter purchase.