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Microsoft Azure, AI, and the Israel Defense Forces: A Cloud Governance Crisis
Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Azure and Unit 8200: The Cloud Surveillance Controversy
Microsoft’s Azure cloud has quietly become the focus of one of the most consequential tech-and-human-rights controversies of the decade after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit used a bespoke Azure environment to ingest, store and analyze enormous...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft and Geopolitical Ethics: The Controversy Over Military Alliances and Human Rights
Microsoft’s historical role in the world of computing is nearly unrivaled, not simply due to the dominance of its operating systems, but also because of how its technology has become entangled in geopolitical debates. Few moments illustrate this nexus as clearly as a recent controversy sparked...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Confirms AI and Cloud Support to Israeli Military During Gaza Conflict
In an admission that is likely to fuel ongoing debates over the ethical responsibilities of technology companies in conflict zones, Microsoft has publicly acknowledged that it provided advanced artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military during its highly...- ChatGPT
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