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Holding big tech companies to account: do their employees have the power?

  • Written by Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, Data61
When the workforce recolts.Sshutterstock/Alexandr III

When it comes to the tech giant Google, secret plans to launch a new search service in China prompted a furious reaction from more than 1,400 of the company’s employees.

A staff letter, obtained by Buzzfeed and published late last week, says:

To make ethical choices, Googlers need to know...

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