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Google has terminated four employees for allegedly sharing sensitive information after weeks of internal dissent related to the mistrust of leadership. At least two of the employees were at the center of recent worker protests in San Francisco.
In a memo sent to staffers on Monday, three members of Google's Security and Investigations Team wrote that the four workers were fired after investigations into their behavior concluded that they were engaged in wrongdoing.
"There's been some misinformation circulating about this investigation, both internally and externally," according to the memo, titled "Securing our data." "We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work. To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees' materials and work."
Google confirmed the memo, which was first reported by Bloomberg. The company declined to comment further or confirm which individual employees were terminated. But Rebecca Rivers, who previously spoke out about Google's contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, tweeted she was one of them. Last week, a group of 20 Google employees in San Francisco protested the interrogation of Rivers and another employee, Laurence Berland, who had been placed on sudden and indefinite administrative leave for allegedly sharing sensitive information.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:50PM (19 children)
They always turn on each other eventually, the constant victim mentality demands it.
Btw, can you use Google to name a single person who flew or sailed around Antarctica, strange huh?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:33PM (18 children)
Umm.... ? Reason for why that search would be difficult or otherwise?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:55PM (17 children)
So google gave you name? I doubt it. Don't you think it is strange that in 2020 nobody is being credited with that achievement?
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:24PM (9 children)
James Cook. It was James Cook, and Google was happy to tell me all about it.
Richard Byrd was the first to fly over the South Pole. Google also told me about that.
If I search the term "Flat Earth Antarctica ice wall" I do get a whole host of different results however.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:42PM (8 children)
James Cook? Which of these look like a circumnavigation to you? https://historical-map.blogspot.com/2014/09/voyages-of-captain-cook.html [blogspot.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:11PM (3 children)
The green one. [blogs.bl.uk]
Why be coy? Say what you really mean.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:33PM (2 children)
I would say that both the green and the red look like circumnavigations, only the blue one didn't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @02:30AM (1 child)
So you can circumnavigate something you never even saw? Then might as well say magellan did it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:22AM
That's often one of the intentions when circumnavigating something... ;)
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday November 26 2019, @10:42PM (3 children)
I'm not sure the point being made here either. I don't use google but I tested it with this search "person who circumnavigated antarctica".
James Cook is the first link. Then polarcruises.com apparently has a history blurb mentioning Cook, then wikipedia's "list of antarctic expeditions", followed by wikipedia's "list of circumnavigations". Fifth is a guinessbook article about the first circumnavigation of antarctic in a sailboat by some Russian dude (I presume by sailboat they mean a little one, not one like Cook's). #6 is a link to australiageographic.com.au story about Lisa Blair, first woman to circumnavigate Antarctica. After that, a story from noaa.gov about saildrone, the first drone to circumnavigate Antarctica. The next link is also about that afformentioned drone. Then after that, Randall Reeves apparently is the first person to circumnavigate BOTH the American and Antarctic continents solo in one season. And then we are back to a James Cook link and the end of page one.
Those results don't seem egregious to me in any way. I'm not really understanding what the AC's beef is, unless it is the lack of aviation results.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:56AM (2 children)
Look at the map of his voyages, he wasn't even close to antarctica during these supposed circumnavigations. Sometimes not even in the same hemisphere.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday November 27 2019, @06:21PM (1 child)
True or not, the histories that have been written make the claim and google is just returning what others say.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:01PM
Cook never made that claim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:26PM (6 children)
"first circumnavigation of antarctica" returns James Cook, so what was your point again? I assume you are complaining because there was recently an autonomous circumnavigation which is in the news.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:47PM
This is all I found on Google: https://sites.google.com/site/jamescookvoyagemapvcw/ [google.com]
Ddg showed me some maps of three voyages, none were circumnavigation of anything but New Zealand.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:51PM (4 children)
Is his point that us.google.com doesn't return James Cook because he is a dead white man?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:13PM (3 children)
I suspect his point is that no-one can circumnavigate Antarctica because it is the far edge of our flat earth, but the other A/C is being a bit coy about it.
If you feel like going down a rabbit hole, search for "flat earth ice wall".
(Score: 3, Redundant) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 27 2019, @12:20AM (1 child)
Threadjacking, pure and simple.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @12:45AM
Takes one to know one, eh starchy?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @04:22PM
Tell them to go take a picture of it and show me.