{"id":1015989,"date":"2026-06-20T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015989"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:40:24","slug":"googles-android-security-head-resigns-says-this-decision-has-been-easy-because-it-has-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/20\/googles-android-security-head-resigns-says-this-decision-has-been-easy-because-it-has-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Android security head resigns; says: This decision has been easy because it has become\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Mayrhofer, the engineer who led Google&#8217;s Android platform security team as a director before moving into a principal engineer role, has resigned over the company&#8217;s decision to let the Pentagon use its Gemini AI for classified military work. His farewell note pulls no punches\u2014he told colleagues that leadership &#8220;has lost its moral compass,&#8221; the line he used to title the letter itself. The note was first obtained and reported by Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Mayrhofer dated the note May 18 and circulated it internally before publishing it on his personal blog, where he says it \u201cspread far wider than he expected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Mayrhofer, the engineer who led Google&#8217;s Android platform security team as a director before moving into a principal engineer role, has resigned over the company&#8217;s decision to let the Pentagon use its Gemini AI for classified military work. His farewell note pulls no punches\u2014he told colleagues that leadership &#8220;has lost its moral compass,&#8221; the line he used to title the letter itself. The note was first obtained and reported by Business Insider. Mayrhofer dated the note May 18 and circulated it internally before publishing it on his personal blog, where he says it \u201cspread far wider than he expected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015990,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015989\/revisions\/1015990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}