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You are hereCybersecurityTop 10 Reasons Google Has Culpability in Gmail Security Breach -- Security is Google Achilles Heel Part XIISubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2011-06-03 11:01Google's deep aversion to accountability was in full view in its blog response to the latest gmail security breach, in which Google placed most all of the blame on users and others, while largely trying to absolve Google of its responsibility and accountability in the matter as the world's largest source of private, sensitive and secret information. Top 10 Reasons Google Has Culpability & Needs More Accountability:
My Network World Interview on Google's Privacy & SecuritySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2011-05-12 11:47Announcing My New Book: Search & Destroy Why You Can't Trust Google Inc.Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2011-05-10 11:57I've long thought there was a big untold story about Google, essentially a book all about Google, but told from a user's perspective, rather than the well-worn path of Google books told largely from Google's own paternal perspective.
Given that Google is the most ubiquitous, powerful and disruptive company in the world, it seemed logical to me that users, and people affected by Google, had a lot of important and fundamental questions about Google that no book had ever tried to answer in a straightforward and well-defended manner. Google's Anti-Management Bias ProblemSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2011-05-04 11:16In a remarkable admission for a senior public company executive, Google Chairman and longtime former CEO Eric Schmidt told Gigaom: "At Google, we give the impression of not managing the company, because we don't really. It sort of has its own borg-like quality if you will. It sort of just moves forward." If the executives ultimately responsible for "managing the company" to ensure it proactively respects users' privacy, vigilantly guards against security and data breaches or property infringement, is not really "managing the company," it now makes sense why Google has so many privacy scandals, and security and property infringement problems. Generally protecting privacy, security and property rights are not engineering goals unless company management and managers have internal control and management focus, systems, processes, and procedures to ensure they are a priority to engineering teams. Google's lack of interest in management execution is evident in Google's:
Google WiSpy II & Privacy Scandal #11 vs. Apple's Respect for PrivacySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2011-04-27 11:27The current media and Congressional interest in the new revelation that Google and Apple have collected WiFi location information has largely missed an exceptionally salient point -- Google and Apple have very different privacy track records stemming from their very different attitudes toward privacy. Google Privacy Scandal #11: DOJ: Google Misrepresents Govt. Security Certification -- Google's Federal Rap Sheet GrowsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2011-04-11 14:19Google's ignominious Federal rap sheet only grows longer.
I. What does this mean? Key Questions for Google's New CEO Larry PageSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2011-04-01 18:51When the world's most powerful company gets a new CEO for the first time in a decade, everyone naturally has a lot of questions.
Priorities: Google's No Privacy by Design Business ModelSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2011-03-17 13:41Popular bipartisan interest in safeguarding consumers privacy in the U.S. and Europe confronts Google with a core strategic problem because Google's targeted advertising business model is no "privacy by design" and no "privacy by default."
Google's No Privacy By Design model is unique.
Google's Deep Aversion to Permission -- "Security is Google's Achilles Heel" -- Part XISubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2011-03-10 18:14Google's deep aversion to securing the permission of others before doing something that affects them is central to Google's famed "innovation without permission" ethos. Sadly, it is also the wellspring of Google's infamous privacy and security problems. Where does Google's deep aversion to permission come from? From Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to their mentor Terry Winograd, in Ken Auletta's book "Googled."
This week we witnessed the latest high profile example of Google's deep aversion to getting the permission of others. A few days ago, Google announced that it remotely disabled malware-infected Android applications without the permission of 260,000 Android users who bought or downloaded infected applications from Google's app store.
Google Sides with WikileaksSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2011-01-26 11:51It is stunning that Google's decision to side with Julian Assange's Wikileaks and make all the stolen secret, private and proprietary Wikileaks information universally accessible to the world via Google search, has gotten virtually no media attention, given the:
When Google's Acting CEO Eric Schmidt told the DLD media conference in Munich (as reported by Reuters):
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