Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE

What’s Happening

Let’s talk about More than 900 Google employees signed a letter opposing company links to federal immigration actions.

Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE 15 hours ago Save Kali Hays Technology reporter Save Google executives are facing pressure from staff over the companys ties to the federal governments crackdown on immigration enforcement, which in recent months turned violent and deadly . In an open letter Friday, nearly 900 full-time Google employees demanded more transparency over what the companys technology is being used for inside the US government. (it feels like chaos)

Google has contracts to provide federal agencies with cloud services and also has links to work being done on federal immigration enforcement.

The Details

In a call after the letter was published, a Google employee of seven years dropped he found it “mind-boggling” that Google was maintaining its ties with the immigration enforcement bodies. The letter from Google employees follows a separate letter published two weeks ago and signed workers at various companies, including Amazon, Microsoft and Meta, calling for all tech companies to stop their work supporting the federal immigration crackdown.

In the last year, the Trump administration has stepped up its programme to forcibly remove immigrants, sending armed agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) into several cities. Operations to carry out such removals lead to two high-profile killings of US citizens who were observing federal agents.

Why This Matters

The Google employee forefronting the demands to management identified himself as Alex and dropped he joined the company seven years ago. “I was proud to be working at a company with a moral compass. Im not proud anymore,” he dropped.

This could have major implications for how we use technology going forward.

The Bottom Line

Im not proud anymore,” he dropped. In 2018, amid pressure from thousands of employees, Google abandoned a contract with the Pentagon known as Project Maven to develop more efficient drone technology for use military.

What’s your take on this whole situation?