Redmond, Wash. Police arrested seven people on Tuesday after occupying the Microsoft President Brad Smith’s office as part of continued protests over the company’s ties with the Israeli army during the ongoing war in Gaza, the organizers said. The current and former Microsoft employees were arrested under the arrest, the protest group said no blue to apartheid. Azure is Microsoft’s primary cloud computer platform, and Microsoft said he revised a report in a British newspaper this month that Israel used it to facilitate attacks on Palestinian targets. The protesters could be seen on a live living stream, while officers moved in to arrest them. The video shows another group outside. During a media briefing Tuesday afternoon, Smith said two of the arrested Microsoft employees were. Eighteen people were arrested last week in a similar protest march in a square at the headquarters. The group has been protesting the company for months. In May, Microsoft fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella, and in April it fired two others who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary. The claims of the group include that the company cut ties with Israel and that it pays compensation to Palestinians. The British newspaper The Guardian reported this month that the Israeli army used Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Computing platform to store phone call data obtained by the mass supervision of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Microsoft said he had employed an outdoor plants firm to investigate the allegations, but that the conditions of service would prohibit such use. “There are many things we can’t do to change the world, but we’ll do what we can and what we should,” Smith told reporters during a media briefing after the arrests of Tuesday. “It begins with the assurance that our human rights principles and contractual conditions of employment are maintained everywhere, by all our clients around the world.” Earlier this year, the Associated Press previously unreported details about Microsoft’s close partnership with the Israeli defense ministry, which uses Azure to transcribe, translate and process Azure collected by mass -supervising. The report that the data can be checked with Israel’s internal, AI-activated systems to help targets. After the report, Microsoft said in an overview there is no 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 the review, but the company said it would share factual findings from the further review requested by the Guardian’s report when completed. In the statement on Tuesday, the protest groups said the disruptions were “to protest Microsoft’s active role in the genocide of Palestinians.” This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without edits to text.
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