Google employee raises $100,000 in pledges for strike fund

A prominent Google employee said today she had raised $100,000 in pledges for a strike fund, following more news about the company’s controversial plans for China.

Earlier today, The Intercept published a new report about Google’s plans to build a censored search engine in China. The report detailed executives’ response to internal dissent about the project, and included concerns from engineers who said they felt the security and privacy process had been sidelined.

In response, Liz Fong-Jones, a Google worker and employee advocate, said on Twitter that Google employees should consider how workers would respond if executives overrode recommendations from the safety and privacy team. “Google’s S&P teams must have our backs,” she wrote.

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