Google is one of the world’s largest tech companies. Along with Facebook, Google is among the top three most successful advertisers in the greater world of technology, reeling in the bulk of its revenue through selling ads via Google Ads in the variety of pay per click advertisements, or PPC ads, and their pay per impression counterparts, also known as PPI ads.
You may remember recent issues that Google had with its workers – they were classified as independent contractors, rather than employees – a couple of months ago in which they were told to peep in on the private conversations and dialogues of the millions of people who used the company’s Google Home system. These audio files were recorded by these personal virtual assistants that have taken the form of covert listening or wiretapping devices, though all of the people who had their audio skimmed by Google’s contractors were not identified by name or any other identifying information so that, even though the contractors heard highly private and embarrassing things they said, their faces were saved because of the aforementioned anonymity they were given.
Though the company has long gotten over this issue, it has found itself in hot water again, this time with a few of its employees. A handful of workers at Google’s headquarters located in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Silicon Valley region had been speaking out against how they, themselves, and other people who have been employees for Google have been treated over the past few years.
Google was facing this backlash because it had not handled a slew of allegations of sexual misconduct, for example, in recent years. Another bad judgment of Google was when it worked with China in secret for more than a couple of years in developing a special type of search engine that would be highly restrictive, just like the rest of the World Wide Web that the Chinese federal government has given its citizens the opportunity to use over the past 20-plus years.
The tech giant fired a handful of employees who were speaking out against these things in the form of an in-house, private announcement as the direct result of not operating in line with the data security policies of Google that all workers have to adhere to. A number of Google employees tweeted things critical of Google in the hours following the firing, though the employees are still long gone from the company.
Dil Bole Oberoi
