[dekhn]

having launched some product at Google in my day, I know quite well how to skate through that process (although D&I was not part of it when I filled out my forms). Sadly for my friends in privacy and security, it's not hard for product teams to exploit Google's propensity to launch and override privacy and security concerns.

[ikiris]

Is the super secret process to just have a vp invested in the launch?

[dekhn]

having executive cover is important, but equally important is knowing exactly how to write "this control is out of scope for my project" in the launch forms, or making an approval "FYI" instead of "Required". It gets harder and harder to do this as your launch requires more and more personal data to operate.