Please explain why this is the case. Should we instead not have people in a position of overseeing ethics for a new and potentially harmful technology?

Is this real? I wonder if he's told to announce his position on social media; it almost seems as though his job is literally to let people know that "Google cares about ethics."

Why is it grotesque? (and in their pinned tweet they use "privacy engineer", so the official title probably is something else.)