A couple of days ago Microsoft fired off a couple of shots in Google's general direction, with their chief privacy strategist Peter Cullen claiming that, when it comes to privacy, “Google is where Microsoft was seven or 10 years ago.”
Now, ZDNet.com.au has a response from a Google Australia spokesperson, who says "There are different ways of deploying privacy awareness within a company." Refusing to play the numbers game, the spokesperson did not directly answer how many people they have working on privacy-related issues (Cullen said that Microsoft has over 40 full-time people over 400 part-time people invested in privacy). "Rather than a single, isolated privacy department, here at Google we embed the importance of privacy into our products and systems from engineers through to executives, guided by trained privacy professionals," he said.