US: Seven Arrested After Protest At Microsoft President’s Office Over Israel Links | World News
According to media reports, he was arrested on Tuesday after invading the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith in the United States, Washington, Washington of the protesters.
According to media reports, those arrested include existing and former Microsoft employees.
Protest against Microsoft’s ties with the Israeli army
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Protesters oppose Microsoft’s cloud services contract with Israel, claiming that the company’s Azure platform is used to support military operations.
20 activists were detained last week
Tuesday’s protest was the last of a series of demonstrations that existing and former employees dealt with Israel in relation to the cloud of Microsoft. Last week, about 20 activists were detained during a similar show on the company’s Redmond, Washington, campus.
Allegations about Microsoft’s role in military surveillance
The arrests came even when Microsoft began to review a recent investigation report by a British news organization allegedly trusting Azure technology to assist the Israeli army surveillances and attack Palestinian goals.
The debate reports that the Israeli military surveillance agency 8200 unit uses Azure to store a large number of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank.
Microsoft rejects civil surveillance knowledge
Responding to these claims, Microsoft argued that he was not aware of any civilian supervision or collection of mobile conversations through his services.
Internal Investigation by Microsoft to the use of the Azure of the Israeli army
At the beginning of this month, the company confirmed that the 8200 unit launched an internal investigation about alleged allegations that had hidden Palestinian calls seized on Azure servers and used the data to help select the bombing targets in Gaza.
According to Al Jazeera, since Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, Israel launched a military operation in Gaza and at least 62,122 people were killed and 156,758 people were injured. Meanwhile, on October 7, the attacks on Israel killed 1,139 people and took more than 200 hostages.
