Former Google Exec: Company Put Profits Over Human Rights

Senate in Maine and Googles former head of international relations, blamed the leadership team that has replaced founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, CFO Ruth Porat, and former Google Cloud leader Diane Greene for failing to live up to the companys original model of Dont be evil.

But soon after the decision, LaJeunesse wrote, Google executives in charge of Google Maps and Android ignored that precedent and began lobbying to launch their own products.

When LaJeunesse advocated for a binding company-wide commitment to human rights, he said, executives waffled and produced thin excuses to say no.

During a diversity training, Googles human resources segregated various minorities into rooms labelled with blunt descriptions like homos and brown people, he wrote. When he raised the issue with HR, he said, a senior executive dispatched someone to do some digging on LaJeunesse and accidentally sent him the assigning email.

Google has endured several years of employee unrest over a strained relationship with the Trump administration, sexual harassment by executives, and its work on Dragonfly and artificial intelligence for the Department of Defense.