Hundreds of Google employees on Wednesday called on the internet titan to avoid working for US immigration officials until they stop “engaging in human rights abuses.”
A petition signed by more than 600 “Googlers” as of late afternoon was prompted by word that US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was preparing to request bids on a massive cloud computing contract.
Google is a major cloud computing provider. Its rivals in the market included Amazon and Microsoft.
“The winning cloud provider will be streamlining CBP’s infrastructure and facilitating its human rights abuses,” a copy of the petition posted on medium.com said.
“It’s time to stand together again and state clearly that we will not work on any such contract.”
