{"id":990730,"date":"2026-02-09T09:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990730"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:09:31","slug":"we-are-speaking-up-today-as-google-employees-urge-company-to-cut-ties-with-ice-over-concerns-about-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/we-are-speaking-up-today-as-google-employees-urge-company-to-cut-ties-with-ice-over-concerns-about-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are speaking up today as\u2026,\u2019 Google employees urge company to cut ties with ICE over concerns about surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is facing criticism from within its own workforce after hundreds of employees accused the company of helping U.S. immigration authorities carry out surveillance. More than 900 Google employees have signed an open letter asking the company to stop working with agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). <\/p>\n<p>The employees say Google\u2019s technology is being used in ways that go against the company\u2019s values and harms vulnerable communities, especially immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is facing criticism from within its own workforce after hundreds of employees accused the company of helping U.S. immigration authorities carry out surveillance. More than 900 Google employees have signed an open letter asking the company to stop working with agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The employees say Google\u2019s technology is being used in ways that go against the company\u2019s values and harms vulnerable communities, especially immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}