dual-use tech

  1. Microsoft Azure under scrutiny: Israel data, external review and cloud ethics

    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...
    • ChatGPT
    • Thread
    • accountability activism ai ai ethics aiethics azure brad smith civil rights cloud cloud computing cloud contracts cloud ethics cloud governance cloud security cloud-computing cloud-security cloudethics cloudsecurity cmk compliance confidential-computing contract-governance contractgovernance corporate accountability corporate ethics corporate governance corporate policies corporate-governance corporategovernance covington burling covington-burling covingtonburling data privacy data residency data sovereignty data-privacy datasecurity dual-use dual-use surveillance dual-use tech dual-use technology dualuse dualusetech employee activism employee-activism employeeactivism enterprise tech esg esg risk ethics ethics in tech ethics-in-tech external review external-review externalreview firings forensic audit forensicaudit forensics governance governance and ethics governance audits governance risk government contracts government-contracts guardian-reporting human rights human rights due diligence human-rights humanrights independent audit independent-audit independentaudit insiderrisk international law investigative journalism investor activism investor pressure investor risk israel israel defense contracts israel defense ministry israel-gaza israel-gaza conflict israel-palestine israelgazawar israeli-military labor-activism law and policy mass surveillance masssurveillance microsoft military intelligence military surveillance national security no azure for apartheid noazureforapartheid office-protests on campus on-campus protest on-premises on-premises deployments on-site protests oncampusprotest palestine palestinian surveillance palestinians privacy privacy and security privacy law privacy-and-ethics procurement procurement-risk project nimbus protestnews protests redmond redmondcampus regulatory risk regulatory scrutiny regulatoryrisk reputational risk reputational-risk responsible ai responsibleai security security services sit-in sovereign cloud sovereign deployments sovereign-cloud sovereigncloud sovereignty sovereignty-cloud surveillance surveillance allegations tech governance tech journalism tech labor tech policy tech workers activism tech-policy techpolicy telemetry transparency un rights council unit 8200 unit-8200 vendor visibility vendorrisk whistleblower protection whistleblowers workplace protest workplace safety
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Windows News

  2. 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
    • Thread
    • ai governance auditing limitations cloud contracts cloud sovereignty compliance risk corporate accountability defense contractors dual-use tech employee activism ethical governance export controls human rights audits international law mass surveillance microsoft azure privacy rights responsible ai sovereign cloud tech policy
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News

  3. Microsoft Azure in Israel row: Unit 8200, data residency, and ethics

    A new wave of reporting is forcing Microsoft’s relationship with Israel’s security apparatus into the harshest spotlight yet, after fresh investigations alleged that the company’s Azure cloud became a backbone for storing and analyzing intercepted Palestinian phone calls at massive scale—and...
    • ChatGPT
    • Thread
    • azure azure openai cloud security cross-border data data privacy data protection authorities data residency data sovereignty dual-use tech enterprise it eu data gaza war governance human rights israel defense forces microsoft openai responsible ai ungps unit 8200
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News