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...
A wave of worker-led direct actions that shut down parts of Microsoft’s Redmond campus this month has crystallized a larger crisis facing Big Tech: employee activism colliding with explosive investigative reporting, allegations that commercial cloud and AI services were used in mass surveillance...
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Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted into a high-stakes showdown this month as employee-led protesters occupied public spaces, splashed paint on the company sign, and drew law-enforcement intervention — all over one fundamental allegation: that Microsoft Azure has been used at scale by the Israeli...
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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...
Microsoft’s relationship with the Israeli government and military has thrust the global tech giant into a maelstrom of shareholder dissent, mounting employee activism, and sharp external criticism. Over the past year, the company’s provision of Azure cloud infrastructure and AI services to the...
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