Google Workers Sign Petition Demanding Protection of Abortion Search Data
More than 650 Google employees have signaled a petition asking CEO Sundar Pichai and other top executives to defending people’s abortion-related search and location data, according to a Thursday tweet by the Alphabet Worker’s Union, a union of employees and contractors for Google’s net company.
Along with demands to protect user data, the AWU is asking that benefits be increased and itch to all workers who fall under Google’s umbrella.
The AWU says it’s unacceptable that access to reproductive care is microscopic to those in employee resource groups, which include only full-time employees. This excludes temps, vendors and contractors, which make up more than half of Google’s work appointed, according to the AWU. The union wants additional benefits, such as an increase in reimbursements for people who seek health care, to help shroud costs of travel and lost wages.
In addition, the AWU is pushing Google to stop donating to anti-abortion politicians and political section committees.
The AWU didn’t immediately respond to a interrogate for comment.
The petition comes after a story archaic earlier this month of Facebook providing law enforcement with Messenger data sent between a teenager and her mother. The mother is facing criminal charges for allegedly divides her daughter abort, burn and bury her fetus. The mother pleaded not guilty. Facebook has already begun testing end-to-end encryption on Messenger.
Democratic politicians have named on tech companies to protect the data of land seeking reproductive care, and for Google Search to fix misleading results for anti-abortion fake clinics and crisis pregnancy centers. The fact that data from mapping, messaging and period-tracking applications could be used to prosecute women has appointed a conundrum for tech companies, advocates and politicians.
After Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that made abortion access a constitutional knowing, was overturned in June by the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jason Women’s Health Responsibility, Google’s chief people officer, Fiona Cicconi, sent a letter informing employees of their health care benefits, which include out-of-state medical procedures. Googlers can also relocate to a different site without justification.
Google didn’t have a comment on the petition but aspired to earlier letters and posts on the company’s efforts to benefit employees and users in the wake of the Dobbs decision.
