> Decide which (few!) products need legal review and let the others run faster.
That is unfortunately not really possible. At the scale of Google, you have to keep up with a ton of different regulatory environments - the US and EU as large blocks which lead with regulation like GDPR, but also the 150+ other countries that have their specific demands. On top of that come all the diversity issues - something completely innocent and expected in the US and EU can become a criminal offense in other countries (e.g. Saudi-Arabia and women's or LGBT rights, China/Russia and anything democracy, India and running afoul of the BJP).
That is unfortunately not really possible. At the scale of Google, you have to keep up with a ton of different regulatory environments - the US and EU as large blocks which lead with regulation like GDPR, but also the 150+ other countries that have their specific demands. On top of that come all the diversity issues - something completely innocent and expected in the US and EU can become a criminal offense in other countries (e.g. Saudi-Arabia and women's or LGBT rights, China/Russia and anything democracy, India and running afoul of the BJP).