Comment on Google emails revealing disagreements b/w Product and Advertising teams about manipulating search to drive ad revenue

Fades@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• stiephel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And legal/ compliance, too

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Legal getting in the way of engineering is usually a very good thing.

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    • lycanrising@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      software engineer in a medium-large public tech company, i agree. i can’t even imagine the amount of stress the legal team must be under to constantly be discovering what management and engineering have messed up this time…and discover the problem is 6 months old and if a regulator catches wind of it it’ll be painful.

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      • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I was actually thinking about the goal of those laws, protecting society from unbridled capitalist tech companies. The fear of regulators is only an intermediate tool.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Constant minefield and multi-shift alliances.

    I lead web applications.

    Last year, I + legal team was in a war with ad team because they were whining about tracking during the CCPA rollout.

    This year, it’s me + ad vs legal team over them wanting to slap compliance notices everywhere that affects user experience.

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