A sit‑in at Microsoft’s Redmond campus that ended with arrested protesters inside the office of company president Brad Smith has erupted into a global ethics crisis for the maker of Windows and Azure, exposing fundamental tensions between cloud economics, employee activism, human‑rights...
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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
Microsoft’s cloud business is at the center of a fraught ethical, legal and commercial storm after new reporting tied Azure to intelligence workloads used by Israel’s military, forcing a reckoning over what cloud providers can — and should — do when sovereign customers appear to repurpose...
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