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> I was doing nothing more than notifying my co-workers about Google's obligations under labor law

> Kathryn Spiers updated an internal Chrome browser extension so that each time Google employees visited the website of IRI Consultants — the Troy, Michigan, firm that Google hired this year amid a groundswell of labor activism at the company — they would see a pop-up message that read: “Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities.”

Yeah ok.



This extension popping up messages on various sites was a completely normal thing for it to do, she simply added another message.


unrelated to actual purpose of the tool; she co-opted internal security tool for a personal soap box and pushed it to the entire company. That's a clear violation of trust in her job role.




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