… Meta’s decision to move forward with its tracking tool despite weeks of protest from employees has become one of the leading reasons for what 16 current and former employees recently described to WIRED as record-low morale. …
… But in the breakdown of Suspicious Activity Reporting indicators, the intelligence report lists activities that could easily be carried out by peaceful protesters, legal experts say. …
… But after widespread protest from employees, Meta this month began offering more exemptions to the monitoring, including letting staffers briefly turn off the surveillance so they could complete sensitive tasks, such as scheduling a personal appointment, according to two people familiar with the ma… …
… Pockets of employee protest have become a constant and defining feature of the biggest tech companies, including Meta, Amazon, and Google. …
… Roughly 600 US-based Google employees reportedly signed a letter protesting the deal. “We think the any-lawful-purpose clause is vague enough to be effectively meaningless,” the DeepMind employee says. …
… A decade ago, thousands of tech workers protested against Trump’s immigration bans alongside executives. …
… Lawrence maintains that he supports renewable energy, especially community-owned and -operated models. In 2023, the same year the law to bypass ordinances was passed, the Michigan legislature did not pass initiatives that would have supported community solar. …
“Local governments, in collaboration with community stakeholders, should be setting the terms for data center buildout,” Amazon senior software engineer Liesl Wigand said at a city hearing. “Let’s not let Big Tech burn Seattle to win the AI race.” The comments by Wigand and two other Amazon softwar… …
… During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, audiences began demanding that influencers creating content on anything from fashion to food publicly speak out and take sides on political issues. …
… It’s just how wire services work.” Both Chan and Webster stressed that there have been instances in the past of Chinese actors intentionally amplifying other social issues organically causing unrest in the US—protests around the genocide in Gaza, for instance. …