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Google says it is investigating an AI ethicist for sharing sensitive documents, amid bristling tensions between employees and leadership

Sources say Margaret Mitchell was being investigated by management on Tuesday and .....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderJan 20th, 2021

More than 1,000 Googlers signed a letter demanding the search giant cuts ties with climate-change deniers

Reuters Google employees published an open letter with more than 1,000 signatories on Monday demanding the company take .....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderNov 5th, 2019

Google employees don"t want it to work with US border agencies

In a newly published petition, Google employees are demanding the search giant not bid on a recent cloud computing contract from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency. Citing recent even.....»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralAug 14th, 2019

Hundreds of Google employees call for removal of AI ethics board member accused of anti-LGBTQ views

Some Google employees are calling on the search giant to remove a member of its newly-chartered AI ethics committee. In a petition posted Monday, a group called Googlers Against Transphobia asks the company to dismiss Kay Coles James, a prominent co.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsApr 1st, 2019

Google"s Employee Revolt Highlights the Dangers of Drifting Away From Your Mission

More than 3,000 Google employees signed a letter demanding an end to a program they feel runs counter to the tech giant's mission......»»

Category: topSource: incMay 2nd, 2018

Google Employees Revolt, Refuse To Work On Clandestine AI Drone Project For The Pentagon

Around a dozen Google employees have quit and close to 4,000 have signed a petition over the company's involvement in a controversial milita.....»»

Category: blogSource: zerohedgeMay 14th, 2018

Report: Around a dozen Google employees have quit over Pentagon drone contract

For months, a debate has raged inside Google, following the company’s decision to help the U.S. Department of Defense analyze video footage gathered by military drones. Several thousand Google employees signed an internal petition to CEO Sundar Pichai.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMay 15th, 2018

Google Employees Protest Secret Work on Censored Search Engine for China

About 1,000 of the internet company’s employees have signed a letter demanding transparency, saying censored search results raise “urgent moral and ethical issues.”.....»»

Category: mediaSource: nytAug 16th, 2018

Google fires top AI ethicist 2 months after co-leader"s ousting, leaving its ethical AI team headless

Both leaders of Google's ethical AI team, Margaret Mitchell and Timnit Gebru, were ousted within two months of each other. Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google .....»»

Category: smallbizSource: nytFeb 19th, 2021

CVS clarifies its worker policies after more than 1,700 employees sign a petition demanding paid sick leave, face masks, and gloves as stores are overrun with customers

Reuters On Wednesday, CVS issued an update that clarified its policies to include paid sick leave for employees diagnosed with the coronavirus or under mandatory quarantine. This comes four days after employees started a petition on Change.org.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderMar 18th, 2020

CVS updates its worker policies after more than 1,700 employees sign a petition demanding paid sick leave, face masks, and gloves as stores are overrun with customers

Reuters On Wednesday, CVS updated its policies to include paid sick leave for employees diagnosed with the coronavirus or under mandatory quarantine. This comes four days after employees started a petition on Change.org demanding si.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderMar 18th, 2020

Trader Joe"s is paying bonuses to store employees as sales spike

A petition circulated online this week demanding that Trader Joe's give workers hazard pay and guaranteed wages in case of store closures......»»

Category: topSource: moneycentralMar 17th, 2020

U.S. Congress seeks answers on patient privacy in Google, Ascension cloud deal

Four Democratic leaders on the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce committee on Monday wrote Alphabet Inc's Google and Ascension Health demanding briefings by Dec. 6 on how patient data the hospital chain is storing on the cloud is used......»»

Category: topSource: reutersNov 18th, 2019

Hundreds of Google employees call for company to avoid work with ICE and CBP

The petition demands Google not provide services to ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection until they "stop engaging in human.....»»

Category: topSource: usatodayAug 15th, 2019

San Francisco Pride Refuses to Ban Google From Its Parade, But Says They ‘Must Do More’

Employees are protesting how YouTube handles homophobic speech. San Francisco Pride organizers say they won’t ban Google from the annual Pride Parade on Sunday, despite receiving a letter signed by almost 100 Google employe.....»»

Category: europeSource: fortuneJun 26th, 2019

Grocery employees union demands answers from Shoppers

Unionized employees of D.C.-area Shoppers grocery stores are demanding that the chain’s Providence, Rhode Island, parent company communicate with them about impending store closures.  The ownership of Shoppers, which until October was Minnesota-base.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsMar 25th, 2019

Seattle open data startup to be acquired by Tyler Technologies

Tyler Technologies has signed an agreement to acquire Seattle-based Socrata, an open data and DaaS startup. Socrata's leadership and substantially all its 150 employees will join Tyler. Socrata's offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C., will remain open.....»»

Category: topSource: bizjournalsApr 18th, 2018

More than 400 Washington Post staffers wrote an open letter to Jeff Bezos calling out his "shocking" pay practices

Getty/Chip Somodevilla More than 400 Washington Post employees addressed an open letter to owner Jeff Bezos. They signed a petition calling for fair pay, benefits, and job security, decrying "shocking" current practices. They a.....»»

Category: topSource: businessinsiderJun 15th, 2018

Google employees demand more oversight of China search engine plan

Google's plan to launch a censored search engine in China requires more "transparency, oversight and accountability," hundreds of employees at the Alphabet Inc unit said in an internal petition seen by Reuters on Thursday......»»

Category: topSource: reutersAug 16th, 2018

Google employees sign petition protesting work on secret Chinese search engine project

Hundreds of Google employees.....»»

Category: topSource: usatodayAug 16th, 2018