human rights

Microsoft’s Azure cloud now sits at the center of a major data‑privacy and human‑rights controversy after the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) lodged a formal GDPR complaint alleging Microsoft Ireland unlawfully processed and enabled the transfer of Palestinian personal data used by the...

Microsoft’s decision to cut off a set of Azure and AI services to a unit in Israel’s Ministry of Defence followed explosive investigative reporting that alleged the Israeli military had built a cloud‑scale surveillance pipeline to ingest, transcribe and index millions of Palestinians’ phone...

Microsoft has added a formal, anonymous channel inside its employee Integrity Portal called Trusted Technology Review, giving staff a dedicated, non‑retaliatory path to flag concerns about how Microsoft builds, sells, and deploys technology — a procedural change announced by Microsoft President...

Microsoft’s internal controls for reporting ethical concerns have been expanded to include a formal channel for flagging potential human‑rights and policy risks tied to the development and deployment of its technology, a move announced by company President Brad Smith as part of a broader...

Microsoft’s partial suspension of Azure services to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit has become the focal point of a renewed campaign by civil‑society organisations demanding far greater corporate accountability for cloud and AI tools used in the Gaza conflict. Background / Overview Since...

Microsoft’s partial suspension of services to an Israeli military unit has forced a rare reckoning inside Big Tech over the real-world consequences of cloud infrastructure and AI — and raised urgent questions about corporate due diligence, export controls, and the ethics of supplying tools that...

Microsoft’s partial suspension of Azure services to a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defence has crystallized one of the most consequential debates of the cloud era: when and how should hyperscale vendors enforce human‑rights limits against sovereign customers whose use of commercial...

Microsoft’s partial suspension of Azure cloud and AI services to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit has crystallized a global debate about the role of hyperscale vendors in wartime intelligence, and human-rights organisations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Access Now...

Microsoft has disabled a discrete set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after an external review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale collection and processing of Palestinian communications were supported by...

What began as an opinion piece in a regional daily — a forceful claim that “the world has finally said: enough is enough” — has rapidly migrated from polemic into a set of verifiable developments across diplomacy, law, sport and technology. The Islamabad Post column by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged large‑scale storage and AI‑assisted processing of intercepted...

Microsoft’s move to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defence has forced a public reckoning about how hyperscale cloud infrastructure and commodity AI tooling can be repurposed into instruments of mass surveillance—and...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...

Microsoft’s announcement that it has “ceased and disabled a set of services” for a unit inside a foreign defence ministry marks a rare, high-stakes intersection of cloud computing, corporate policy, and wartime intelligence — and raises urgent questions about how global cloud platforms police...

Microsoft’s decision to cease and disable a set of Azure cloud and AI services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense follows an urgent internal review that found preliminary evidence supporting investigative reporting that alleged the Israeli military stored and analysed large volumes...

Microsoft’s partial disablement of Azure services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has exposed a layered tragedy: independent investigations show a cloud‑backed surveillance pipeline capable of ingesting and indexing vast quantities of Palestinian phone calls, Microsoft’s own review...

Microsoft has confirmed that it has ceased and disabled a set of cloud and AI services provided to a unit within Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an internal review found evidence consistent with media reporting alleging the misuse of Azure for large-scale civilian surveillance. Background In...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions tied to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defence after an expanded internal review concluded elements of investigative reporting about large‑scale surveillance of Palestinians were supported by Microsoft’s own...

Microsoft has announced it has “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense” after an expanded review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the use of Microsoft Azure and AI tools to ingest, store and analyse large...

Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and AI services for a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defence after an internal and externally assisted review found evidence that elements of investigative reporting about mass surveillance of Palestinians were supported by Microsoft’s...