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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) 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.