Hundreds of Google employees are calling on
the company to pledge it won’t work with U.S.
Customs and Border Protection or Immigration
and Customs Enforcement. It’s the latest in a
year full of political and social pushback from
the tech giant’s workforce.
A group of employees called Googlers for
Human Rights posted a public petition urging
the company not to bid on a cloud computing
contract for CBP, the federal agency that
oversees law enforcement for the country’s
borders. Bids for the contract were due Aug. 1.
It is not clear if Google expressed interest. The
company did not return a request for comment.
More than 900 Google employees had signed
the petition. Citing a “system of abuse” and
“malign neglect” by the agencies, the petition
demands that Google not provide any technical
services to CBP, ICE or the Office of Refugee
Resettlement (ORR), which provides services for
refugees, until the agencies “stop engaging in
human rights abuses.”