Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users

bonch writes "Former Google employee David Barksdale accessed user accounts to spy on call logs, chat transcripts, contact lists. As a Site Reliability Engineer, Barksdale had access to the company's most sensitive information and even unblocked himself from a teen's buddy list. He met the minors through a Seattle technology group. Angry parents cut off contact with him and complained to Google, who quietly fired him."

Come on...

[grub]

...the question is: what's his /. ID? It must be in the 4 or 5 figure range.

Re:Do No Evil

[antifoidulus]

Holy shit, Pope Benedict must be a majority shareholder at Google!

Re:Do No Evil

[Anonymous Coward]

And the quietly letting him go rather than warning others about this persons actions is ... whose policy?
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The Catholic Church's?

Re:Duh

[M4n]

"Research something" or "Research something"?

Luckily for David Barksdale, creepy kiddy stalker

[Rogerborg]

He - David Barksdale, notorious harasser of vulnerable teens, I mean - shares a name with a more famous chap, who will remain at the top of Google searches. Unless enough people start referring to David Barksdale primarily in the context of the famous freaky violator of childrens' privacy. You know, David Barksdale. The freaky creepy weird fucked up emotionally stunted probably-not-a-pederast basket case fired by Google for stalking children. That guy.

Re:Do No Evil

[Shabazz Rabbinowitz]

...let's not hang a man in the realm of public opinion...

You're new here, aren't you?

Re:All the data on Google

[Aeros]

oh...we can NOW!

ah

[Chrisq]

What part of heaven is most popular?

...the fucking Cloud.

Re:Do No Evil

[nschubach]

So new that Slashdot hasn't had time to assign them a user ID.

Re:Happens on every website.

[PhxBlue]

Could you post your date of birth and mother's maiden name, too? Thanks!

WTF, Hemos?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Why can't I friend Anonymous Coward under the zoo system?!!!

I think Anonymous Coward is a pretty cool guy. He tells it like it is and isn't afraid of anything.