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Everything you do, and everything that happens -- from the location of a water cooler down to serious violations of the law -- is confidential upon pain of termination and the risk of ruinous litigation. You are forbidden to speak to the government, attorneys or the press about wrongdoings at the Company. You are forbidden to speak to your spouse, or your friends, about whether you think your boss could do a better job.
These are only a few of the eye-catching elements in Google's confidentiality policies, according to a lawsuit brought forward by one of the 65,000 "Googlers". The plaintiff has registered his complaint under a "John Doe" identity, as Brian Katz, Google's Director of Global Investigations, Intelligence & Protective Services falsely informed the rest of the Googlers that plaintiff had been terminated for leaking certain information to the press. This was not the case, and Katz knew this, according to the plaintiff: he fears going public will ruin his reputation in the tech industry.
Earlier this year, a Nest employee was fired because he posted comments about Nest's CEO Tony Fadell on Facebook. The reason given for termination was that these posts breached Google's Data Classification guidelines.
(Score: 2) by Uncle_Al on Sunday December 25 2016, @03:43AM
Moffett Field, conveniently next door to the main Hive of Jive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @08:55AM
Moffet field is in california, not washington.
I don't know what field the GP is talking about.
But, on the other hand, Moffet's got a long history of collaboration with silicon valley companies. I interviewed for civilian work there about 20 years ago and they were doing cutting edge networking.