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This article covers walkouts that were happening in London at Google. This article further adds satirical value to the website as there is a direct link to it under their workforce.

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LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company's London offices on Tuesday, following a dispute over layoffs.

In January, Google's parent company Alphabet (GOOGL.O) announced it was laying off 12,000 employees worldwide, equivalent to 6% of its global workforce.

The move came amid a wave of job cuts across corporate America, particularly in the tech sector, which has so far seen companies shed more than 290,000 workers since the start of the year, according to tracking site Layoffs.fyi.

Trade union Unite, which counts hundreds of Google's UK employees among its members, said the company had ignored concerns put forward by employees.

"Our members are clear: Google needs to listen to its own advice of not being evil," said Unite regional officer Matt Whaley.

"They and Unite will not back down until Google allows workers full union representation, engages properly with the consultation process and treats its staff with the respect and dignity they deserve."

A Google employee attending the protest, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, told Reuters that talks between employees and management had been "extremely frustrating."

"It has been difficult for those involved. We have a redundancy process for a reason, so that employees can make their voice heard," they said. "But it feels as if our concerns have fallen on deaf ears."

Google's senior management has been engaged in redundancy talks in many parts of Europe, in line with local employment laws.

Last month, workers at the company's Zurich office in Switzerland staged a similar walkout, with employee representatives claiming Google had rejected their proposals to reduce job cuts.

"As we said on January 20, we've made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles globally. We know this is a very challenging time for our employees," a Google spokesperson said.

"In the UK, we have been constructively engaging and listening to our employees through numerous meetings, and are working hard to bring them clarity and share updates as soon as we can in adherence with all UK processes and legal requirements."

Google employs more than 5,000 people in the United Kingdom.

Reporting by Martin Coulter Editing by Mark Potter and Christina Fincher

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts

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LONDON, April 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company's London offices on Tuesday, following a dispute over layoffs. In January, Google's parent company Alphabet (GOOGL.O) announced it was laying off 12,000 employees worldwide, equivalent to 6% of its global workforce.

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I used various Google stock images provided by the site to use in my website. I combined this with a mix of profesional sounding text and satirical comments to make my website spoof.

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This article goes over unlawful collection of sensitive data by Google. They claim that they only take necessary data from their users, but this recent lawsuit proves otherwise. I chose this article because this was a large event that involved data collection at Google, making it perfect to put in my website.

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Texas is suing Google, claiming the internet company illegally collects facial and voice-recognition data on millions of residents of the state without their consent.

Google, which is owned by Alphabet, is violating a state consumer protection law that requires people both be informed and grant their consent before their biometric information may be collected, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday in announcing the lawsuit.

Google has stored voice prints and facial records through products including Google Assistant and Google Photos, the latter of which analyzes facial features to sort and group images, according to the complaint, which was filed in district court in Midland County.

"Google has now spent years unlawfully capturing the faces and voices of both non-consenting users and non-users throughout Texas - including our children and grandparents, who simply have no idea that their biometric information is being mined for profit by a global corporation," the suit states.

Google dismissed the allegations and vowed to defend itself in court, telling CBS MoneyWatch in an email that Paxton is "mischaracterizing our products in another breathless lawsuit."

"Google Photos helps you organize pictures of people, by grouping similar faces, so you can easily find old photos. Of course, this is only visible to you, you can easily turn off this feature if you choose and we do not use photos or videos in Google Photos for advertising purposes," an Alphabet spokesperson said. "The same is true for Voice Match and Face Match on Nest Hub Max, which are off-by-default features that give users the option to let Google Assistant recognize their voice or face to show their information."

Texas is among a small number of U.S. states to pass biometric privacy laws that prohibit capturing personal identifiers for commercial use without first getting an individual's consent.

Google earlier this month agreed to pay the state of Arizona $85 million to settle a 2020 lawsuit that alleged it had misled users by recording their locations even after users attempted to switch off the geo-tracking setting on their smartphone. The company used the location information to sell billions of dollars in advertising, Arizona said. Google denied any wrongdoing.

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Texas accuses Google of collecting people's facial and voice data without their consent

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MoneyWatch Texas is suing Google, claiming the internet company illegally collects facial and voice-recognition data on millions of residents of the state without their consent. Google, which is owned by Alphabet, is violating a state consumer protection law that requires people both be informed and grant their consent before their biometric information may be collected, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday in announcing the lawsuit.

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Culture jamming is the practice of disrupting the mundane nature of everyday life and the status quo with surprising, often comical or satirical acts or artworks.
https://www.thoughtco.com/culture-jamming-3026194

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Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or exposing the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

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The purpose of this project is to critique Googles collection of users data. They say that they only collect necessary data in a safe way, but they also collect personal data that is harmful to the user. On top of this, they also issue unfair wage cuts to their employees.