Days later, Amazon employees sent an internal letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demanding their employer stop selling its facial recognition technologies to law enforcement and stop providing digital infrastructure, like web hosting or cloud services, to Palantir and other companies that do surveillance work for ICE.
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(Employee backlash to Project Maven, the code name for the initiative, was so strong that dozens of Google employees quit over the partnership in protest.) Last Tuesday, more than 100 employees of Microsoft wrote a letter to CEO Satya Nadella protesting a $19.4 million contract the company has with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide database and artificial intelligence services. At the beginning of the month, Google decided to stop building artificial intelligence services for a Pentagon drone program after thousands of employees signed a petition asking the company to end its Department of Defense contract. In recent weeks, workers at Google, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft have all urged their employers to stop providing technology services to local and federal government agencies that engage in police surveillance, military work, and immigration enforcement and deportation. Which is why a growing number of employees of major American tech companies are starting to demand that their companies do more. But simply being opposed to the most horrific actions of the federal government right now isn’t that hard, particularly if you’re already powerful.
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