Amazon is the last great technology company to face the revolt of employees
Amazon is the last great technology company to face the revolt of employees
Stock Photo: Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, speaks at the milestone celebration at The Economic Club of Washington in Washington.
(Associated Press)The technological giants workers are beginning to act when they do not like what their powerful employers are doing.
This week, Amazon employees are reportedly trying to force Chief Executive Jeff Bezos to address the Controversial sale of facial recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, including ICE.
The plan, According to the emails seen by Recode, is flooding the digital question box in the biannual meeting of Amazon with so many questions that it will be impossible for Bezos to ignore.
"We believe that if enough people send questions, there is a greater possibility that we can hold the leadership accountable," an employee activist wrote in an email.
The aggressive ploy comes shortly after the recent upheavals on Google and Facebook, where workers are showing an increasing willingness to demonstrate, especially when it comes to big problems affecting Silicon Valley, including sexism, political controversies and consequences of aggressive growth.
"Talented technology workers are a popular product, and I think they have power. I'm pleased to see you start using it, "says Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit group that advocates for freedom of expression online.
"I think these technology workers are pointing out that these technology companies may have lost a bit in terms of their commitment to building things that make the world better," Cohn said.
Last week, more than 20,000 Google employees. organized a global strike to protest the grease separation packs the search giant apparently gave executives despite accusations of sexual misconduct. While the workers were mostly tight-lipped at the event, a few pointed out that it was about more than sexual harassment.
"Sexual misconduct is kind of the tip of the iceberg of the things that women face in a work environment where they are a minority," said Google programmer Amelia Brunner, 25. "I think people will doubt my work much more than they would doubt a colleague."
In early June, Google engineers signed a petition to demand your company. Ends his work with the Pentagon Maven Project., an artificial intelligence operation that analyzes drone images.
Google announced shortly after that it would not seek additional work in the controversial project and that it will no longer use AI in applications related to weapons and surveillance that violate international standards or threaten human rights.
Meanwhile, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was questioned by the rank in a weekly question and answer session last month after senior executive Joel Kaplan was discovered sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh's family at the candidate's confirmation hearing. Supreme Court.
Facebook, bowing to the pressure, said in response that it had "made mistakes" about Kaplan's appearance, which critics said was a sign of support for Kavanaugh amid accusations of sexual assault.
This story originally appeared in the New York Post.
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