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This headline is super confusing. I interpreted it as meaning Google spied on people and then fired them. However, what the article itself seems to be saying is
by madrox 6y ago
This headline is super confusing. I interpreted it as meaning Google spied on people and then fired them. However, what the article itself seems to be saying is that Google fired people for spying on others. The spying was, "for reviewing other employees’ calendars." The NLRB then found that illegal.
At least, that's how I'm interpreting this article. Otherwise there's no actual explanation of what spying actually occurred.
- smeyer 6y ago>Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today. This part of the article seems pretty clear. It also sounds like one of the fired employees did something involving looking at other people's calendars, but that the core reason that they were fired was for union-related activities.
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- smartician 6y agoBut in order for Google to catch people spying on other people by viewing their calendars, Google would have to surveil the activity of the people doing the spying. Maybe that's what the headline is referring to, but the article doesn't spell that out explicitly (which makes it a very poor piece of journalism in my opinion).