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Meet the Woman Who Leads NightWatch, Google’s Internal Privacy Strike Force

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @08:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the crypto-swat dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Lea Kissner is back at her alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, armed with a crisp gray blazer, a slide deck, and a laptop with a 'My Other Car Is A Pynchon Novel' sticker on it. Since graduating in 2002, she's earned a PhD at Carnegie Mellon in cryptography and worked her way up at Google, where she manages user privacy and tries to keep things from breaking. She's here to tell a hall of computer science students how she did it—and also how to create privacy-protective systems at a scale that you won't find outside a handful of massive tech companies.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-woman-who-leads-nightwatch-google-s-internal-1825227132

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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:13PM (1 child)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @06:13PM (#668667)

    First thing that I thought of...

    Pretty ironic to use the name of an organization in Babylon 5 that was created to spy on everyone. And one wonders how many geeks there are at google that would recognize the significance.

    But they had nothing to do with Psi Corps. As mentioned earlier they were part of the Ministry of Peace and civilian.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightwatch_(Babylon_5) [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:39PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @07:39PM (#668695)

    That is what makes it so creepy, the fact -everyone- at Google would know where the name came from because someone in every working group would be a B5 fan. Everyone would instantly understand the meaning of the codename and thus correctly infer the actual mission of the group without it ever needing to be written down and subject to a court order. An obscure sci-fi fandom reference would never be brought up at a Congressional hearing, never discussed on CNN because it would be 'a crazy conspiracy theory'; yet it is right out in the open and everyone knows what it is. Combined with "Don't be evil" as the old corporate motto. Oh yea, sure we can trust them with knowing more about ya than yer own mother does.