Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation(Technology Review)

Posted Mar 27, 2021 9:11 UTC (Sat) by zauguin (subscriber, #138185)
Parent article: Google’s top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation (Technology Review)

Why is there even a "controversy"? We know that US intelligence agencies spy on their allied governments and engaging in industrial espionage with no relevance to terrorism. According to their own statements US officials don't know what their intelligence agencies are doing but according to the article still have significantly better oversight then "other western democracies". And we can expect that it only gets worse when we don't believe such official comments. So even if one believes that security disclosures should be held back for counterterrorism reasons, there is no reason to trust western intelligence agencies enough to believe that they actually restrict themselves to such usage.