I am an avid gmail + google user, so I am kinda scared that Google is just harvesting data for the government/China/some sort of illuminati. It seems like some bro who works at Google utilized his position 2 hack into the gmail accounts of teens so he could get turned on. Seemed to be some sort of scary child predator

David Barksdale, a 27-year-old former Google engineer, repeatedly took advantage of his position as a member of an elite technical group at the company to access users' accounts, violating the privacy of at least four minors during his employment, we've learned. Barksdale met the kids through a technology group in the Seattle area while working as a Site Reliability Engineer at Google's Kirkland, Wash. office. He was fired in July 2010 after his actions were reported to the company

R u worried that a google employee/the government is gonna invade ur private life, expose u, and ruin u? Should I join the social network ashleymadison.com because they are 'mad private'? Will Google 'expose' Tiger Woods?

In an incident this spring involving a 15-year-old boy who he'd befriended, Barksdale tapped into call logs from Google Voice, Google's Internet phone service, after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend, according to our source. After accessing the kid's account to retrieve her name and phone number, Barksdale then taunted the boy and threatened to call her.

In other cases involving teens of both sexes, Barksdale exhibited a similar pattern of aggressively violating others' privacy, according to our source. He accessed contact lists and chat transcripts, and in one case quoted from an IM that he'd looked up behind the person's back. (He later apologized to one for retrieving the information without her knowledge.) In another incident, Barksdale unblocked himself from a Gtalk buddy list even though the teen in question had taken steps to cut communications with the Google engineer.

Worried I'm gonna have to start using Bing/hotmail/msn.com.
Afraid that Google 'knows 2 much' and hires unchill bros who just want to read all of my gChats.
Feeling let down and violated by the Google.

It seems like maybe he wasn't a 'child predator' after all. He was just trying to be a funny lil troll, showing off that he had a 'bad ass job' playing 'God' via Google:

Our source said Barksdale's harassment did not appear to be sexual in nature, although his online communication with the minors (such as inviting underage kids to attend to the movies with him) demonstrated extraordinarily questionable judgment on Barksdale's part. "My gut read on the situation was that there wasn't any strong sexual predatory behavior, just a lot of violating people's personal privacy," our source explained.

Does this bro seem 'mad alt'? R u a hacker? Do u hope 2 work 4 google 1 day?

R u worried about ur online privacy?
Can google ruin ur life?
Does Google know more abt u than ur bffs?
R u worried that facebook employees are reading ur sext messages/browsing patterns?
Should all of ur browsing + messaging information be 'private'?
Do u trust google?
which web 2.0 company is 'a conspiracy'?