Google

=== Racially-targeted surveillance ===

Google has aided controversial governments in mass surveillance projects, sharing with police and military the identities of those protesting racial injustice. In 2020, they shared with the [[FBI]] information collected from all Android users at a [[Black Lives Matter]] protest in Seattle,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Faife |first=Corin |date=February 5, 2022 |title=FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, new documents show |url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack |access-date=November 17, 2022 |website=[[The Verge]] |language=en-US}}</ref> including those who had [[Opt-out|opted out]] of [[Location-based services|location data collection]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sonnemaker |first=Tyler |title='Apple is eating our lunch': Google employees admit in lawsuit that the company made it nearly impossible for users to keep their location private |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/unredacted-google-lawsuit-docs-detail-efforts-to-collect-user-location-2021-5 |date=May 28, 2021 |access-date=November 17, 2022 |website=[[Business Insider]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Doctorow |first=Cory |author-link=Cory Doctorow |date=November 11, 2022 |title=Apple's business model made Chinese oppression inevitable |url=https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/11/foreseeable-consequences/#airdropped |access-date=November 16, 2022 |website=Pluralistic }}</ref>

Google is also part of [[Project Nimbus]], a $1.2 billion deal in which the technology companies Google and [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] will provide [[Israel]] and [[Israel Defense Forces|its military]] with [[artificial intelligence]], [[machine learning]], and other [[cloud computing]] services, including building local [[Server farm|cloud sites]] that will "keep information within Israel's borders under strict security guidelines."<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Grant |first=Nico |date=August 30, 2022 |title=Google Employee Who Played Key Role in Protest of Contract With Israel Quits |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/technology/google-employee-israel.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=August 30, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite web |date=July 24, 2022 |first=Sam |last=Biddle |title=Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel |url=https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus/ |access-date=August 30, 2022 |website=The Intercept |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |agency=[[Reuters]] |date=April 21, 2021 |title=Israel picks Amazon's AWS, Google for flagship cloud project |language=en |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-picks-amazons-aws-google-flagship-cloud-project-2021-04-21/ |access-date=August 31, 2022}}</ref> The contract has been criticized by shareholders as well as their employees over concerns that the project will lead to further abuses of [[Palestinians|Palestinians']] human rights in the context of the ongoing [[Palestinian territories|illegal occupation]] and the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 18, 2022 |first=Sam |last=Biddle |title=Google and Amazon Face Shareholder Revolt Over Israeli Defense Work |url=https://theintercept.com/2022/05/18/google-amazon-israel-military-nimbus/ |access-date=August 30, 2022 |website=The Intercept |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=October 12, 2021 |title=We are Google and Amazon workers. We condemn Project Nimbus |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/12/google-amazon-workers-condemn-project-nimbus-israeli-military-contract |access-date=August 30, 2022 |website=[[The Guardian]]|language=en}}</ref> Ariel Koren, a former marketing manager for Google's educational products and an outspoken critic of the project, wrote that Google "systematically silences Palestinian, Jewish, Arab and Muslim voices concerned about Google's complicity in violations of Palestinian human rights—to the point of formally retaliating against workers and creating an environment of fear",  and said she was retaliated against for organizing against the project.<ref name=":12" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Koren |first=Ariel |date=August 30, 2022 |title=Google's Complicity in Israeli Apartheid: How Google Weaponizes "Diversity" to Silence Palestinians and Palestinian Human Rights Supporters |url=https://medium.com/@arielkoren/googles-complicity-in-israeli-apartheid-how-google-weaponizes-diversity-to-silence-palestinians-cb41b24ac423 |access-date=August 30, 2022 |website=Medium |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220830120248/https://medium.com/@arielkoren/googles-complicity-in-israeli-apartheid-how-google-weaponizes-diversity-to-silence-palestinians-cb41b24ac423 |archive-date= August 30, 2022}}</ref>

In March 2024, ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that [[Google Photos]] was being used in a facial recognition program by [[Unit 8200]], a surveillance unit of the [[Israel Defense Forces|Israeli Defense Forces]], to surveil [[Palestinians]] in the [[Gaza Strip]] amid the [[Israel–Hamas war|Israel-Hamas War]]. A Google spokesman commented that the service is free and "does not provide identities for unknown people in photographs."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Frenkel |first=Sheera |date=2024-03-27 |title=Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/technology/israel-facial-recognition-gaza.html |access-date=2024-03-27 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>