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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts / It’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft. (www.seattletimes.com)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

In a blog post published in May, the company said it had “found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza.”

But Microsoft said this month that it had enlisted the law firm Covington & Burling to conduct a further review after a report that Israel’s military surveillance agency intercepted millions of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and stored them on Azure servers. That trove helped inform the selection of bombing targets in Gaza, according to reporting by the Guardian newspaper, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, and Local Call, a Hebrew-language news site.

Who are you going to believe? The company that stands to make big profits from collaborating with genociders, or the independent journalists calling them out for it? It's a tough one.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure how you'd even know that was the case.

However, now they know. So time to cancel those contracts, or....?