The incident occurred at the Mind the Tech conference in New York, where Barak Regev, general manager of Google Israel, was giving a presentation. The engineer reportedly stood up and said, “I refuse to create technology that enables genocide or surveillance,” referring to Project Nimbus, a controversial $1.2 billion contract that gives Israel access to Google and Amazon cloud services.
Google confirmed the firing in an email, saying the employee “interfered with an official company-sponsored event” and violated company policies. This statement caused criticism from some groups. An organization opposing Project Nimbus released a statement alleging that Google “is trying to silence workers to cover up its moral failings.”
Source: Ferra
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