Although the company promised $175 million to support black business owners and job seekers, and YouTube created a $100 million fund to strengthen the voice of black content creators, Google continues to profit from contracts with the police.
One of the reasons for writing this letter is that Google has not yet stated does the company intend to continue its cooperation with the police. This is especially important for face recognition technology. The bottom line is that 2 weeks ago, Amazon announced that for a year the police would not be able to use such technology from them called Rekognition.
At the same time, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna noted that the company does not encourage technologies that will be used for mass surveillance and violation of basic human rights and freedoms and noted that they will not continue to cooperate with the authorities on this project. Read more about this in our article.
Note that the letter was distributed among employees from last Wednesday, and in a short period of time gathered more than 1600 like-minded people. According to employees, an official response from management has not yet arrived.
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