Absolutely. Not that any organization should really default to getting the benefit of the doubt, but an executive from Google? Anything they do is about increasing company profits, and if there are any benefits to anybody else it is purely coincidental.

This is the first thing I thought of too. Improving organization of data would lower the barrier of entry for competitors and so be a threat to Google. Malicious and incompetent actors have to be dealt with anyway so he inserts a sneaky little non-sequitur there by implying that not having this metadata would somehow avoid that problem.