GitHub is the latest tech company to face controversy over its contracts with ICE Employees are demanding the company cancel its $200,000 contract with the immigration agency. by Shirin Ghaffary
Friedman noted that although GitHub is an enormous part of the open-source community, its contract with ICE is for a different product, the GitHub Enterprise Server—a version of the typical ...
Oct 31, 2019GitHub parent company Microsoft — which has contracts with ICE worth more than $8 million, according to Recode — has also resisted giving in to employee demands to stop working with the agency.
Nov 13, 2019Last month, GitHub employees penned an open letter urging the company to stop working with ICE. That came following GitHub's announcement of a $500,000 donation to nonprofit organizations in ...
At least five GitHub employees have quit their jobs in response to the software development platform's $200,000 contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to three ...
In response, over 150 GitHub employees signed a letter asking GitHub to cancel its contract with ICE. AD "We are not satisfied with GitHub's now-public stance on this issue," the letter said.
Oct 9, 2019Employees at Microsoft, GitHub's parent company, began protesting the software maker's $19.4 million contract with ICE in June 2018, accusing executives of "abdicating" ethical responsibility.
On Oct. 22, GitHub's chief operating officer reportedly sent a letter to staffers, disclosing that the company's servers were being used by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division, which ...
On Wednesday, GitHub employees or 'Hubbers' posted an open letter on the Washington Post demanding that the Microsoft-owned company cancel its contract with ICE "no matter the cost", in response ...
In an open letter obtained by the Washington Post, GitHub employees responded with outrage to their CEO's email.They characterized ICE's mission as a "human crisis," writing: "The ...