Google Fires Engineer for Accessing Users' Accounts

Google confirmed that it fired an employee earlier this year for violating its policies on accessing the accounts of its users. Earlier, Gawker reported that David Barksdale, an engineer in Google's Seattle offices, used his position as a key engineer evaluating the health of Google's services to break into the Gmail and Google Voice accounts of several children.

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