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Google accused of creating ‘surveillance tool’ to monitor employees’ unionizing efforts

Thursday, October 24, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Google accused of creating ‘surveillance tool’ to monitor employees’ unionizing efforts

Google employees have accused the internet giant of creating an “internal surveillance tool” to monitor gatherings of more than 100 people with an intent to crush their attempts to organize protests. Per Bloomberg, which cited an memo from an anonymous Google staffer, employees discovered that the company was creating the new tool as a Chrome browser extension that would be installed on all employees’ systems and used to monitor their activities. The extension would then report to senior staff any calendar event with more than 10 rooms or 100 participants, implying that “this is an attempt of leadership to immediately…

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