"Plaintiff brings this suit as a “Doe”
because Brian Katz, Google’s Director of
Global Investigations, Intelligen
ce & Protective Services, falsel
y informed approximately 65,000
Googlers that Plaintiff was terminated for “leaking”
certain information to the press. In fact, Plaintiff did not leak the identi
fied information to the press an
d Katz knew he did not. Rather,
Katz and Google used Plaintiff as a very public sc
apegoat to ensure that other Googlers continued
to comply with Google’s unlawfu
l confidentiality policies. "
According to B.Katz LinkedIn biography, he was a Special Agent and is using gov. intel grunt tactics on Google employees, much like special agents would when Obama/etc... cracked down on whistle blowers.
Looks like a revolving door hire, and if the suit is correct, then it has to cost Google a huge fine.
What is GOogle hiding they want a strong-arming Security Service Agent comfortable with making illegal threats running their grunt task force?
At large companies like MS, Google, or FB you can roughly divide security into "infosec" and physical security. The latter org will run everything from the door guards and video/badge infra to executive protection services and employee investigations. I am guessing that Mr. Katz runs this org at Google.
Sound like a total dick. Glad this wasn't a bar in Florida where you can conceal carry. Dude comes to some establishment and threatens employees and owner with criminal prosecution and filing criminal charges, then when they want to return the phone to the police, he would rather have it returned to them...
You shouldn't have been downvoted for that comment. According to the Wired article that broke the story (which RT apparently cut-and-pasted from without proper attribution):
this guy apparently was being an all-out, stereotypical SV dickhead, blatantly threatening a mere bartender (Barton) with criminal charges ("like I was in any trouble", as Barton says) -- just so he could save his own ass back at the Googleplex.
