GooLeaks - Google Fires Two People Each Month Due To Leaking?

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People may think of Apple as the most secretive company ever in the history of companies, but now we’re learning that Google also takes corporate security very seriously. TechCrunch reporter Sarah Lacy has uncovered that Google is firing an average of two people per month for leaking Google secrets to the outside world.

Lacy discovered this while writing a larger piece on the brain drain from Google to smaller companies like Facebook. Purportedly, Google is losing these employees because they’ve come a big bumbling bureaucracy, (dare we say, like Microsoft). When TC when asking after a memo that Google brass wrote about this, they were told that Google takes security seriously.

Remember last month, word came out that Google would be giving each employee a $1,000 Christmas bonus and a guaranteed raise for 2011. Great story! Doesn’t really put Google in a negative light. But then it was reported that the guy who leaked that memo was fired. Google’s point of view is likely that if somebody will leak that memo, then it’s a slippery slope and they’ll feel inclined to leak more, possibly negative stuff.

What do you think? It is healthy for a company to operate like this? I know from my posts on the cameraless Android phones that a number of our readers work in high-security workplaces where they aren’t allowed to have phones with cameras. Tell us what you think the comments section.