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No, I’m sorry I cannot do that, for me that would be doxxing. I work for a government contractor and have access to a databases of executive contact information. I think if you spent a little time with a search engine you might be able to accomplish the same thing otherwise.


That sounds kind of unethical. Or is the reasoning, you could have found it on Google anyway, so you might as well do it the easy way?


Just because I have access to resources that you don't doesn't mean I should do the work for you. That's an entirely new level of wokeness.


I wasn't suggesting you give me the information, but that you probably shouldn't have obtained it in that way. It might also be illegal?


So you used your database to look up information to intentionally share files with an unwilling party? Interesting.


If they didn’t want files to be shared with them, Google employees are empowered to fix this in ways non-employees are not. If they show up in the share list, one can only presume they consented to this, as there is a way to opt-out; there should be a menu to configure this setting as well, and that is a good point to make, but it is a different, related point.




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