BuzzFeed News profiles a little-known team within Google who advocates for "communities that might otherwise be overlooked." NightWatch came into existence nearly four years ago when Google Engineer Lea Kissner approached Google Vice President for Security and Privacy Engineering Gerhard Eschelbeck with the intention of standing "between users and the dark places of the internet," Kissner said. "We wanted to make products that work well for a variety of people and give people choices on how to handle their information," Kissner added. Comprising engineers, lawyers, activists and others, the diverse team creates protective solutions for vulnerable people. Google Privacy Program Manager Amanda Conway, for example, described one solution they developed during the Arab Spring: "We saw activists that were jeopardizing their safety on social media to share things. ... By creating face blurring tools, and quickly pushing them out, we were trying to introduce something to respond to their new safety concerns on the ground." 
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