I don't see how this is a collaboration with google. Instead, it appears the reporter poorly informed about what google cloud platform is and is not. The closest thing to collaboration is the ability to access google…
Step 6: Mention a 2 week shutdown notice and do not provide support to to download data in a sensible way or migrate to a different service.
As others have pointed out, the audit excuse is just that -- an excuse. It holds so little water that others have done it while in office (Nixon released his tax returns while they were under audit in 1973).
I don't see how this is a collaboration with google. Instead, it appears the reporter poorly informed about what google cloud platform is and is not. The closest thing to collaboration is the ability to access google…
Step 6: Mention a 2 week shutdown notice and do not provide support to to download data in a sensible way or migrate to a different service.
As others have pointed out, the audit excuse is just that -- an excuse. It holds so little water that others have done it while in office (Nixon released his tax returns while they were under audit in 1973).