Mistrust | Google cuts meetings to stop staff leaking info

Tech behemoth Google has announced a new effort to clamp down on employees exposing company information, Gizmodo reported.

In a company-wide email, which has also since been leaked, CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company will be scaling back its weekly ‘TGIF’ town halls to a once-monthly, strictly business meeting due to ‘a coordinated effort to share our conversations outside of the company after every TGIF’. Pichai wrote in the email that he knows the coordinated leakage ‘is new information to many of you’.

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However, The Washington Post previously wrote about the leaks in last month’s leak of another TGIF meeting where the CEO allegedly said: “You’ve clearly seen the amount of leaks we are seeing.”

Last year, a former employee told the New York Times that stopping leaks was Google’s ‘number one priority’, meanwhile in 2017 another leaked email titled ‘The recent leaks’ from the head of Google’s top leaks team shared that the firm had sacked a staff member for leaking corporate information.