25-11-2018 20:56 via theverge.com

Google settled with a contractor after complaints of racial profiling

Google settled a racial discrimination claim brought by a contractor who says that the company failed to adequately protect him from being “treated as a terror suspect,” while on the job for Google Maps, reports The Guardian.The Guardian says that Google retracted a contract offered to Ahmed Rashid (an alias), after he complained about being racially harassed on the job. Rashid, whom the paper identifies as a UK citizen of Moroccan descent, told the paper that he worked as a third-p
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