US Labor Department sues GOOGLE over employee private data

  05 January 2017    Read: 2683
US Labor Department sues GOOGLE over employee private data
The US Department of Labor filed a lawsuit Wednesday to compel Google to release private information about its employees for an anti-discrimination probe.
The lawsuit, according to court documents, alleges that Google withheld the information when the federal contracting office began a routine audit of the company’s equal opportunity employment program.

The Labor Department has formally requested an administrative law judge to either force Google to comply with federal regulations or to end all of Google`s current contracts with the federal government and bar the company from entering into future contracts.

In a statement, Google said it had provided hundreds of thousands of records during 2016 but that it refused to give the government private information about its employees.

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