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Nine Google employees arrested after eight-hour sit-in protest


The employees were put on administrative leave.

By engaging in this contract leadership has betrayed our trust, our AI Principles, and our humanity,” said Billy Van Der Laar, a Sunnyvale-based software engineer. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Anna Kowalczyk, the external communications manager for Google Cloud, said Project Nimbus is not related to the Israeli military. “We have been very clear that the Nimbus contract is for workloads running on our commercial cloud by Israeli government ministries, who agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy.

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