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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: 2, Touché) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:52PM (5 children)
So will people decide they are anti-google or anti-union here?
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday November 26 2019, @07:39PM
'meh, I've not researched Unions enough to have a good opinion. Google on the other, is the least worst of the phone OSes, the e-mail provider of choice, and the browser I avoid like the plague. If I was slightly more paranoid, I'd be rolling my own e-mail, but I'm just not going to do that. Also, when using Android, I may as well have gmail as well. Would be nice, if Google was a bit more "do no evil" and a lot less politically correct.
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: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:07PM (1 child)
Why not anti-google and pro-union?
As an aside, the TFS was a bit vague, referencing only "activism" -- the linked article didn't make it clear, the word "union" isn't even in that article. The link "protested" returned a 403 forbidden error. The link "blog" however did lead to an article indicating that this was a union busting effort. It would be nice of TFSs didn't assume complete familiarity and provided a little background rather than resort to vague terms like "activism".
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:22PM
I am pretty sure pro-union is not an option for most of the libertarians around here.
It is Bloomberg, so I felt that the article specifically avoided the word.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 27 2019, @02:53PM
I'm not anti-union. I've always figured that all bottom-rung and near-bottom-rung employees have more in common with people working next to them doing a similar job than they could ever have with the suits who get paid big bucks to walk around describing how we need to reprioritize the action items to maximize synergies.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 28 2019, @03:11AM
How about neither? I'm just anti-SJW and think Google did the smart thing getting rid of problematic troublemakers perpetually looking to be offended. It did take them longer than I thought it would for people who are supposedly the smartest in the world but eventually they did the math and got the right answer.