Meredith Whittaker warns we are becoming lab animals in a giant tech experiment. The big news in tech this week is the announcement that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as executives of parent company Alphabet, founded in 2015 with the goal of making it "cleaner and more accountable". Page and Brin said it was time to "assume the role of proud parents - offering advice and love, but not daily nagging" while handing the reins to Sundar Pichai. A group of Google employees feel differently: "Some had seriously hoped Sergey and Larry would step in and fix Google. Instead of righting the sinking ship, they jumped ship," tweeted Google Walkout for Real Change, a worker's organisation protesting, various unfair practices and policies within the tech company. Google Walkout for Real Change is not an obscure fringe group. It began last year as a huge organised protest that saw 20,000 employees in 50 cities across the globe stage a walkout in protest of how the