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Why do Google employees refuse to fulfill the cloud contract with the US Customs and Border Service

Customers: Customs border service of the USA (US Customs and Border Protection)

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Contractors: Google


Project date: 2019/08

In the middle of August, 2019 the staff of Google urged corporation to refuse the cloud contract with the customs border service of the USA. The new petition was created by an employee group which urge to refuse contract performance with immigration service until that stops "violating human rights". The petition was signed by more than 600 people.

Staff of Google opposes the become tougher migration policy of the USA and privilege elevation of immigration service. During raids federal agents already arrested about 700 illegal migrants. In the petition employees urge the company to stop cooperation with this public sector: "Recently it became known that the customs border service of the USA is going to submit the application for the large contract on cloud computing.

Staff of Google refuses to perform the cloud contract the customs border service of the USA

Signatory such contract the provider will not only rationalize infrastructure of this service, but also to promote human rights violation. Time to us came again to gather and say that we are not going to work on such contracts. We demand that Google publicly undertook the obligation not to support immigration customs service (ICE), management on resettlement of refugees and the customs border service of the USA (CBP) and not to provide them infrastructure, financing or engineering resources, directly or indirectly, until these services do not cease to violate human rights".

It is not the first protest of employees of the technology industry in general and Google in particular. Employees of the large companies began to doubt moral effects of own works long ago. So, in 2018 Google refused participation in the tender for the large contract for the Pentagon as employees urged the company not to interfere with military business.

Google still responded to the petition to the middle of August, 2019.[1]

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