Google fired an employee who protested its contract with the Israeli military

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Google has fired a Cloud engineer who protested the company’s billion-dollar contract with the Israeli military and government, Project Nimbus.

Google has fired an employee who publicly protested the company’s work for the Israeli military. During a presentation by an executive with Google’s Israel branch on Monday, the now-former Google Cloud engineer stood up and shouted, “I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance.” Google confirmed the firing, which was first reported by CNBC, in an email to The Verge.

” The employee was escorted out of the presentation shortly after. Google faced pushback over its involvement in Project Nimbus when the contract was signed in 2021. Hundreds of Google and Amazon employees published an open letter to speak out against the deal, saying the technologies “allow for further surveillance of and unlawful data collection on Palestinians.” No Tech For Apartheid, an organization rallying against Project Nimbus, published a statement about the engineer’s firing on Friday.

 

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