Lawsuit is part of a protracted legal battle with tech giant, which claims the trio leaked confidential information to the media
Three fired employees are suing Google for violating its famous “Don’t be Evil” code of conduct.
The motto was part of Google’s official code of conduct - “Remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!” - which employees were required to follow as part of their employment contract. When the company adopted Alphabet as its new name in 2015, Google slowly digressed from its mantra. By 2018, Google has backpedalled on “Don’t Be Evil” and reassigned it to the very end of the code of conduct.
The lawsuit that Rebecca Rivers, Paul Duke, and Sophie Waldman filed is part of their prolonged legal battle against Google which, in turn, claim the employees leaked confidential data to the press. The three former workers allegedly went into “systematic searches” for information “outside the scope of their job”. They were simultaneously fired on November 25, 2019, without being notified of any violation that they committed against the company’s “data security policy”.
Google allegedly fired the software engineers for speaking out against the selling of cloud computing software to Customs and order Protection (CBP). The former employees are accused of disseminating a company-wide petition that called for Google to deny collaborations with Customs Enforcement (ICE) or CBP, which was separating children from their parents...
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