Tech Workers Fighting for Privacy

Published 2020-03

In 2018, when staff at Google, Microsoft and Amazon discovered their companies were engaged in programs to aid U.S. government agencies with surveillance, they published open letters, staged walkouts and protests, and formally organized into activist groups.

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Verdict

renamedThe same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33).

Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2021-285

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

The same forecast in other editions

2019rank 91
2020rank 314

All captured fields

rank: 314
section: Privacy
subject: Tech Workers Fighting for Privacy
page: 275
confidence: medium
note: Title from the contents list in the SlideShare transcript of the publisher upload; order and section from contents page numbers. Quote added 2026-10-02 from the full slide transcript of the publisher upload (SlideShare, Wayback capture of the newer page format); source_url points at the section that holds the page.