> whistleblowers are extremely rare. The few protections they have are being reduced all the time, and the risk is huge. Very few people will give up their career and risk becoming unhirable.
We get the new pixels leaked every year for a decade. We get all sorts of leaks from Google very regularly in the news.
If you work for a tech company and you have juicy new stories you can quite literally call a journalist and get something in the news that week.
It would be reasonable to expect that there are vastly more employees who have access to pixel phone specs than some secret server collecting private information google keeps when they shouldn't. Google is known to be pretty restrictive about employee's access to the user data they're allowed to collect (at least they are now, after some embarrassing cases of Google employees cyber-stalking teenagers and ex-girlfriends (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9862857/Google-fire...)
We get the new pixels leaked every year for a decade. We get all sorts of leaks from Google very regularly in the news.
If you work for a tech company and you have juicy new stories you can quite literally call a journalist and get something in the news that week.