Microsoft workers up in arms over Israel’s use of tech
The protests under the leadership of the workers in the Microsoft center resulted in 18 arrests because the technology company Israeli army promised a “emergency özgünüş study of its use of technology during the ongoing war in Gaza.
Washington, Redmond Microsoft campus on a consecutive day of the protest on a two -day protest, asked the technology giant to interrupt business ties with Israel immediately.
However, on Tuesday, approximately 35 protesters invading a plaza between the office buildings when he asked them to leave Microsoft, according to the Redmond Police Department, the company said that they made unauthorized entry to the police on Wednesday.
The protesters also splashed red paint on a turning point that bearing the company logo and written Microsoft in Big Gray letters.
Last week, Microsoft said that the allegations reported by the UK newspaper touched a law firm, and the Israeli Defense Forces used Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Computing platform to store the call of telephone call obtained through mass surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank.
“Microsoft’s standard service conditions prohibit such use, dedi the company said on Friday that the report raised the“ exact and urgent examination of a complete and urgent examination ”.
In February, Associated Press announced the details of the technology giant’s close partnership with the Israeli Defense Ministry, and 7 October 2023, about 200 times after the HAMAS attack, with the military use of commercial artificial intelligence products. The EP reported that the Israeli army used Azure to copy, translate and process intelligence gathered through mass surveillance, and then cross -controlled by Israel’s in -house AI targeted targeting systems.
Microsoft accepted military practices, but he said that a assigned examination could not find any evidence that the Azure platform and artificial intelligence technologies were used to target or harm people in Gaza. Microsoft did not share a copy of this review or did not say who was running.
Microsoft said that after completing the law firm by Covengon & Burling, the latest review will share the findings.
The promise of a second investigation was inadequate for Azure, who was led by the Azure for the Apartheid group, which protested that Microsoft had supplied the Israeli army with the technology used for the war against Hamas in Gaza against Hamas. The group said on Wednesday that the technology was “used to watch the Palestinians, hunger and kill”.
In May, Microsoft fired an employee who interrupted the conversation by CEO Satya Nadella to protest the contracts and fired two people who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebrations in April.
On Tuesday, the protesters made an online call for calling the Palestinian stool against the Israeli military occupation that began in 1987.
Microsoft said in a statement after the arrests, “He will continue to work hard to maintain the standards of human rights in the Middle East, and take clear steps to address the illegal actions that damage the property, disrupt or threaten things and damage others,” he said.
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