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DRAGONFLY IN THE OINTMENT. Employees are once again taking a stand against Google for engaging in morally questionable behavior.
Their last protest centered on the company’s willingness to help the U.S. military improve its drone program through Project Maven. This time around, they’re taking issue with Google’s decision to create a government-approved search app for China, according to a New York Times report published on Thursday.
On August 1, investigative outlet The Intercept broke the news that Google had been working on a search app for China since the spring of 2017. The project, codenamed Dragonfly, would mark Google’s return to the massive Chinese market, which the company left in 2010 after the Chinese government attempted to censor web content and limit free speech.
TAKING A STAND. Apparently, Google employees were not happy to hear about Dragonfly. They were even less happy to hear about it through news reports and not directly from their employer. According to the Times report, roughly 1,400 Google employees have signed a letter voicing their concerns over the issue.
“Our industry has entered a new era of ethical responsibility: the choices we make matter on a global scale,” they write in the letter. “Yet most of us only learned about project Dragonfly through news reports early August…We urgently need more transparency, a seat at the table, and a commitment to clear and open processes: Google employees need to know what we’re building.”