Nine Google workers were arrested on trespassing charges Tuesday night after staging a sit-in at the company's offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, including a protest in Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office.
Anderson had flown to Sunnyvale for the protest in Kurian's office and was one of the workers arrested Tuesday.
Last month, Google Cloud engineer Eddie Hatfield interrupted a keynote speech from the managing director of Google's Israel business stating, "I refuse to build technology that powers genocide."
The Israeli Ministry of Defense reportedly sought consulting services from Google to expand its access to Google Cloud services.
"A small number of employee protesters entered and disrupted a couple of our locations," a Google spokesperson told CNBC.
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