'What happens in Vegas': How Google tried to keep the bad stuff quiet
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"Google had a top-down corporate policy of 'Don't save anything that could possibly make us look bad.' And that makes Google look bad. If they've got nothing to hide, people think, why are they acting like they do?" - Agnieszka McPeak, Gonzaga University.
"How do we turn History off?" Adam Juda, a vice president for product management, asked in 2020, reflecting the culture of secrecy and avoidance of public records.
Danielle Romain, vice president of Google's user privacy team, advised against keeping any chat history, stating: 'The discussion that started this thread gets into legal and potentially competitive territory.'
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