Google employees demand firm stop selling wares to police
By Caoimhe Toman
Date: Tuesday 23 Jun 2020
(Sharecast News) - Over 1,666 Google employees are demanding that the company stop selling its technology to police departments, TechCrunch has learned.
"We're disappointed to know that Google is still selling to police forces, and advertises its connection with police forces as somehow progressive, and seeks more expansive sales rather than severing ties with police and joining the millions who want to defang and defund these institutions," staff reportedly wrote in a letter addressed to Alphabet chief Sundar Pichai.
"Why help the institutions responsible for the knee on George Floyd's neck to be more effective organizationally? Not only that, but the same Clarkstown police force being advertised by Google as a success story has been sued multiple times for illegal surveillance of Black Lives Matter organizers."
It is known that the Clarkstown Police Department uses G Suite for sharing information and digital evidence. The Seattle police foundation is also involved with the company with Google providing funding for its foundation and its venture capital arm.
"We're committed to work that makes a meaningful difference to combat systemic racism, and our employees have made over 500 product suggestions in recent weeks, which we are reviewing," a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch.
Google employees have been able to successfully pressure the company to drop contracts in the past, including when they asked the firm to stop working on Project Maven and the JEDI cloud computing contract for the Pentagon.
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