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Why are some governments worried about TikTok?

Tech Life

BBC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.3227 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We look at why some governments are worried about TikTok. We hear about pregnancy discrimination in tech and an expert tells us about the future of noise.

(Image: The TikTok logo. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:42.8

No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Hello and welcome to TechTent with me, Zoe Kleinman. This week we hear from a tech worker who

0:48.1

fought Google over pregnancy discrimination and has now written a book about her experience.

0:53.5

We also catch up with the annual

0:55.2

Tech Fair MWC in Barcelona and hear about the health effects of noise. This week I spoke with a

1:05.0

young woman whose story really did stop me in my tracks, especially as a working mother myself.

1:10.2

Her name is Chelsea Glacson and she was

1:12.5

until 2019, a tech worker building a successful career for herself at Google in the US. That was

1:19.4

until her second pregnancy. She found herself managing a dangerous complication while fighting

1:25.0

the tech giant over pregnancy discrimination after she says her

1:29.1

management job was taken away on the grounds it might stress out her team. She received a settlement

1:34.6

from Google after two years and ran up a $120,000 legal bill and she's now written a book

1:41.3

about her experience. I'm going to let her tell you what happened in her own words.

1:46.5

So I started at Google in 2014 and had many years of successful performance.

1:56.6

And then as I started to navigate my journey into motherhood, I noticed that some things

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