Google seeks recruits for privacy 'red team'
Google, which settled a privacy case with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week, is building a "red team" dedicated to solving privacy problems.
The team will be focused on tracking down and fixing privacy risks within the company's products, services, and businesses processes. Its existence came to light after a Google posted a job advertisement seeking a "Data Privacy Engineer, Privacy Red Team".
Kaspersky Lab's ThreatPost blog says that while the concept of a "red team" is far from new -- red teams have been used by companies for decades to identify and block methods of circumventing security systems -- Google's move to confront issues "that could involve user privacy risks is perhaps a unique one."
