Engineer says Google fired her for browser pop-up about worker rights

erek

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"Update: Google executive Royal Hansen explained Spiers' firing in an email Google shared with several media outlets.

"She misused a security and privacy tool to create a pop-up that was neither about security nor privacy," Hansen wrote. "She did that without authorization from her team or the Security and Privacy Policy Notifier team, and without a business justification. And she used an emergency rapid push to do it."

Hansen argued that the firing had nothing to do with the content of the message. "The decision would have been the same had the pop-up message been on any other subject," he argued."


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...d-her-for-browser-pop-up-about-worker-rights/
 
Somehow I doubt that if the pop up message been about a different subject or one pro-google she would have been fired whatever Royal Hansen says.

But if you're going to take a stand against the company, the least you can do is do it in a way that's not going to get you fired.
 
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