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Google walkout organizers vow to ‘not let up’ following CEO’s response

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

The battle to reform Google is just getting started.

Hours after Google CEO Sundar Pichai emailed employees a plan to end forced arbitration in cases involving sexual harassment and assault at the company, organizers of last week’s global Google walkout responded with a statement of their own. The letter, signed by nine employees, was clear: There’s more work to be done.

“We commend this progress, and the rapid action which brought it about,” read the statement in part. “However, the response ignored several of the core demands — like elevating the diversity officer and employee representation on the board — and troublingly erased those focused on racism, discrimination, and the structural inequity built into the modern day Jim Crow class system that separates ‘full time’ employees from contract workers.” Read more…

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Google announces changes to sexual misconduct procedures

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

Google can apparently still live by “Don’t be evil” when it wants to.
In an email sent to employees Thursday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google was making changes to the way that it handled sexual misconduct complaints. The new policies are t…

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Google CEO highlights corporate changes following walkouts

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

This time last week, Google employees held massive walkouts across the country to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment in the wake of a damning New York Times piece. This morning, CEO Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees about the events that was also shared via the company’s blog. “We recognize that we […]

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Google walkout organizer: ‘I hope I still have a career in Silicon Valley after this’

sudshr47 November 1, 2018

Upwards of 1,000 people gathered in San Francisco Thursday to protest Google’s handling of sexual harassment and misconduct.

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Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct

sudshr47 October 29, 2018

The women’s walk is planned for Thursday, according to a BuzzFeed News report.

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Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image

sudshr47 October 27, 2018

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s visage loomed large over the European parliament this week, both literally and figuratively, as global privacy regulators gathered in Brussels to interrogate the human impacts of technologies that derive their power and persuasiveness from our data. The eponymous social network has been at the center of a privacy storm this year. And […]

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks publicly for the first time about its censored China search engine

sudshr47 October 16, 2018

Commenting publicly for the first time about Google’s censored search engine for China, CEO Sundar Pichai said onstage at the WIRED 25 summit in San Francisco that the company is taking “a longer-term view” about the country. Codenamed Project Dragonfly, the controversial development has been public knowledge since a report in August by the Intercept, […]

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Google files appeal against Europe’s $5BN antitrust fine for Android

sudshr47 October 10, 2018

Google has lodged its legal appeal against the European Commission’s €4.34 billion (~$5BN) antitrust ruling against its Android mobile OS, according to Reuters — the first step in a process that could keep its lawyers busy for years to come. “We have now filed our appeal of the EC’s Android decision at the General Court of the […]

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai will reportedly meet with Republican lawmakers this week

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

Google CEO Sundar Pichai will meet in private with Republican lawmakers on Friday to discuss issues including its work in China and alleged political bias, reports the Wall Street Journal. The meeting was organized by House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy, who has accused Google of “controlling the internet” by boosting negative news stories about conservatives […]

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Internal memo from Google’s CEO insists search results are free from political bias

sudshr47 September 23, 2018

Google chief Sundar Pichai wants the people working for him to understand this clearly: Google’s search results aren’t influenced by political bias.

That’s the message Pichai focused on sending in a Friday email to all employees. He was responding to reports of a January 2017 email chain that started a few days after Donald Trump instituted his first version of the Muslim ban.

A Thursday report from the Wall Street Journal noted that, in early 2017, employees talked about using Google’s search features to respond to Trump’s controversial travel ban that focused on predominantly Muslim countries. They sought a way to push back against “islamophobic, algorithmically biased results from search terms ‘Islam’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Iran’, etc.” and “prejudiced, algorithmically biased search results from search terms ‘Mexico’, ‘Hispanic’, ‘Latino’, etc.” Read more…

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Google rebuked by Senate Intelligence Committee for not sending Page or Pichai to testify

sudshr47 September 5, 2018

Alphabet’s decision to decline to send its CEO Larry Page to today’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing — to answer questions about what social media platforms are doing to thwart foreign influence operations intended to sow political division in the U.S. — has earned it a stinging rebuke from the committee’s vice chair, Sen. Mark Warner. “I’m […]

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Google is reportedly planning a censorship-friendly search service for China

sudshr47 August 1, 2018

Google’s search service could be poised to make a dramatic return to China next year, according to an explosive report from The Intercept. Google yanked its search service from China in 2010 in the face of pressure over censorship, but now the publication reports that it has developed a censored version that could launch in […]