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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 26 2019, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the dont-pick-a-fight-with-the-GOOG dept.

CNBC reports,

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:42PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @08:42PM (#925070)

    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)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:11PM (#925086)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 26 2019, @09:33PM (#925101)

      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)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @02:30AM (#925209)

        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

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:22AM (#925283)

          So you can circumnavigate something you never even saw?

          That's often one of the intentions when circumnavigating something... ;)

  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday November 26 2019, @10:42PM (3 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday November 26 2019, @10:42PM (#925130) Journal

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @03:56AM (#925237)

      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)

        by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday November 27 2019, @06:21PM (#925403) Journal

        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

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 27 2019, @07:01PM (#925418)

          Cook never made that claim.