Google fires 28 employees for protesting Google’s Israeli cloud deal “Project Nimbus”

According to Wikipedia:

In March, a Google Cloud software engineer was fired after a video of them shouting "I refuse to build technology that empowers genocide” went viral, in reference to Nimbus.

Shortly thereafter, dozens of employees participated in sit-ins at Google's New York & Sunnyvale Headquarters. Sunnyvale Police were called to remove employees from a day-long occupation of Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian's office. Nine employees were charged with criminal misdemeanor and 28 were terminated.

Google claims Israel are prohibited by terms of service from using its services to engage in violence, and the contract is for workloads related to "finance, healthcare, transportation, and education."

Google Cloud Platform's AI tools could give the Israeli military and security services the capability for facial detection, automated image categorization, object tracking & sentiment analysis — tools that have previously been used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection for border surveillance. The terms Israel set for the project contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure. The tech companies are also forbidden from denying service to any particular government entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus • https://archive.ph/8UN9Q