Protest for Microsoft employees leads to arrests as the company assesses its work with Israels Military

Redmond, Wash.-Protester-led protests broke out at Microsoft’s headquarters this week, as the technical company promises an ‘urgent’ overview of the Israeli army’s use of its technology during the ongoing war in Gaza. A second day of protests on the Microsoft Campus Wednesday called on the technical giant to immediately cut its business ties with Israel. The police division has arrested after Microsoft said the protesters violated. “We said,” Please leave, or you will be arrested, “and they chose not to leave, so they were detained,” police spokesman Jill Green said. Microsoft Late last week said he was tapping a law firm to investigate the allegations reported by the British newspaper The Guardian that the Israeli army had used the Azure Cloud Computer platform of Microsoft to save data obtained by the mass supervisors of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. “Microsoft’s standard service conditions prohibit this kind of use,” the company said in a statement, adding that the report provokes “exact allegations that deserve a complete and urgent review.” The company said it would share the findings after the law firm Covington & Burling completed his review. The promised review was insufficient for the employee-led No Azure for apartheid group, who protested for months that Microsoft provided the Israeli army with technology used for his war against Hamas in Gaza. In February, the Associated Press previously unreported details of the close partnership of the US Technical Giant with the Israeli Defense Ministry revealed, with the military use of commercial AI products running nearly 200 times after the deadly attack on October 7, 2023, Hamas. The report that the Israeli army uses Azure to transcribe, translate and process intelligence, collected by mass supervision, which can then be checked with Israel’s internal AI-enabled target systems. After the report, Microsoft recognized the military applications, but said that an overview he had instructed found no evidence that his Azure platform and artificial intelligence technologies were used to target or harm people in Gaza. Microsoft did not share a copy of the review or say who did it. In May, Microsoft fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella to protest the contracts, and in April fired two others who interrupted the company’s 50th anniversary. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without edits to text.