Google Campus Security Singled Out Black, Latinx Employees

Very important context below.

This policy was implemented poorly, and it was ended suddenly, without calling attention to the harms caused, and while giving extra column inches for why Google felt it was necessary to outsource security tasks to staff which was apparently not appropriately trained to handle security responsibilities[1]. A person’s body and their skin tone has nothing to do with their hypothetical threat level, regardless of the context.

> Pichai said Google had been researching changes to its campus security policy over the past year, but the protests likely prompted faster action. The company had been increasing workplace security since April 2018, when three employees were shot at the Silicon Valley headquarters of its YouTube video unit.

> The insistence on checking employee IDs was meant to discourage “tailgaters” -- people who followed others into Google buildings without swiping badges to enter. But in practice, Black and Latinx employees were stopped and told “Let me see your badge,” even after they proved they had the right to enter the office by swiping in, one of the people said.

[1] https://www.blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/...

Google security is massively biased. I used to collect recycling on their campus and security rarely said anything, yet constantly went after non whites in the same parking lot as me.