Google fires four employees for 'clear and repeated violations' of its data security policies, apparently including one whose suspension inspired a protest at a Google office

Tyler Sonnemaker/Business InsiderGoogle circulated a memo on Monday that informed its employees that it had fired four workers, for what the company said were "clear and repeated violations" of its policies around data security.The memo said that the Google employees under investigation had searched and distributed information outside the scope of their jobs, according to Bloomberg.The memo comes days after more than 200 Googlers demonstrated in solidarity with two colleagues who had been suspended over allegations of improperly accessing internal data.While Google declined to name the four employees referred to in the memo, the Washington Post reports that one of them was Rebecca Rivers, who was one of the two Googlers at the heart of the proest.The two employees said at the protest that

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