Google Fires 4 for ‘Repeated Violations of Security Policies’

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Google has fired four employees for violating its policies on data security, Bloomberg News reported.

“We’ve seen a recent increase in information being shared outside the company, including the names and details of our employees,” Google said in a company-wide internal memo Monday, Bloomberg reported. “Our teams are committed to investigating these issues, and today we’ve dismissed four employees for clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.”

 


The employees were  not fired for “simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work,” the memo said. “To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work. This includes searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs — repeating this conduct even after they were met with and reminded about our data security policies.”

The company confirmed the contents of the memo but would not comment further, Bloomberg said.

The firings ratchet up ongoing tension between Google workers and management in recent years as activists within the company have protested Google's policies and business practices. Some internal supporters of the fired workers say they were let go for their organizing efforts.  

"With these firings, Google is ramping up its illegal retaliation against workers engaging in protected organizing," a group of internal activists said in a statement. "This is classic union busting dressed up in tech industry jargon, and we won't stand for it."

Google recently limited discussions on internal message boards to avoid politics or news stories, created a calendar extension to flag meetings of more than 100 people, and has restructured its weekly all-hands meetings. Many Google employees believe the calendar extension was designed to crack down on union organizing, which the company denied.

 

 


Source: Forbes

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