Google fired 28 employees after the protests held across two of the company’s offices on April 16. The employees had staged the protests over Google’s association with the Israeli government, which involves cloud-computing services known as “Project Nimbus.”
The company alerted the police after sit-in protests at offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, which led to the arrest of nine employees, Google confirmed.
Project Nimbus, a $1.2 million contract, was signed in 2021. It involves joint cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) services provided by Google and Amazon to the Israeli government. Google has said that the program is not being utilized for military or intelligence purposes....
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