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 cloud is now at the center of one of the most consequential surveillance controversies of the 2020s, with multiple investigations alleging that Israel’s Unit 8200 has used a bespoke enclave inside Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyze millions of intercepted telephone calls...
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