Google員工要求公司停止向警方出售技術
A growing group of more than 1,666 Google employees is demanding Google stop selling its technology to police departments, TechCrunch has learned.
TechCrunch（美國科技類博客）獲悉，已有超過1,666名谷歌員工要求谷歌停止將技術出售給警方。
“We’re disappointed to know that Google is still selling to police forces, and advertises its connection with police forces as somehow progressive, and seeks more expansive sales rather than severing ties with police and joining the millions who want to defang and defund these institutions,” employees wrote in a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.
員工在寫給谷歌首席執行官桑達爾·皮查伊的信中說：“我們很失望地瞭解到，谷歌仍然在向警方出售技術，還拿與警方的聯繫做宣傳，說這是一種進步，同時還在試圖擴大銷售範圍，而不是切斷與警方的聯繫，加入數百萬想要削弱和解散這些機構的人的行列中。”
“Why help the institutions responsible for the knee on George Floyd’s neck to be more effective organizationally? Not only that, but the same Clarkstown police force being advertised by Google as a success story has been sued multiple times for illegal surveillance of Black Lives Matter organizers.”
“爲什麼要幫助這些應該爲跪殺喬治·弗洛伊德事件負責的機構，使它們能進行更有效地組織？不僅如此，被谷歌當做成功案例宣傳的克拉克鎮警方曾多次被起訴非法監視黑人人權運動的組織者。”
Google, for example, has publicized how Clarkstown Police Department uses G Suite for sharing information and digital evidence. Meanwhile, Google is also a partner and donor to the Seattle police foundation and its venture capital arm, GV, has invested in startups working on artificial intelligence technology for police.
例如，谷歌宣傳克拉克鎮警方如何利用G Suite分享信息和數字證據。同時，谷歌也是西雅圖警察基金會的合作伙伴和捐贈者，其風險資本分部門GV投資了幾家爲警方開發人工智能技術的初創公司。
“We’re committed to work that makes a meaningful difference to combat systemic racism, and our employees have made over 500 product suggestions in recent weeks, which we are reviewing,” a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch.
一位谷歌發言人對TechCrunch說：“我們致力於對打擊系統性種族主義起到重要作用的工作，我們的員工在最近幾周提供了500多個產品建議，我們正在審覈。”
“On this one, we were the first major company to decide, years ago, to not make facial recognition commercially available and we have very clear AI Principles that prohibit its use or sale for surveillance. We have longstanding terms of use for generally available computing platforms like Gmail, GSuite and Google Cloud Platform, and these products will remain available for Governments and local authorities, including police departments, to use.”
“關於這一問題，我們是第一個在幾年前就決定不會出售面部識別技術的大公司，我們有非常明確的《人工智能原則》，禁止爲了進行監控而使用或出售這一技術。我們對普遍可用的計算平臺有長期的使用條款，包括Gmail、GSuite和Google Cloud Platform。而且這些產品將繼續提供給各國政府和當局使用，也包括警方。”
In the letter, employees go on to say they want to be proud of the company they work for. They also want Google to speak to their values, the letter says.
員工在信中說他們希望能因自己就職的公司感到自豪，也希望谷歌能認同他們的價值觀。
