Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
A little bit late, eh...
The revelations highlighted how Israel has relied on the services and infrastructure of major US technology companies to support its bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and created a profound humanitarian and starvation crisis.
Big Tech companies are essentially arms dealers.
Just a few years too late. I wonder how many people, not just terrorist, but civilians, men, women, children have been murdered with the help and for profits for Microsoft.
History will remeber that Microsoft has comitted the bloodiest and most evil use of AI ever to this date.
Imagine going to court for some case and finding out your judge was an AI software. Now imagine that it would also execute you and your whole family just because they were in the same house with you without jury or human input.
Plantir and Microsoft technology were used to choose targets (with freaking AI) to guide the missiles and directly bomb and kill thousands of innocent civilians.
Israel was going for a death toll, they said it explicitly themselves.
AI "errors" had nothing to do with the outcome in Gaza. The IDF would have used another sloppier metric for targeting, they flat out don't care as long as they still get money and US troops defending them.
This is only because Microsoft's employees have been relentless in their pressure on their bosses. They've been doing occupations of Microsoft buildings, office crashes, etc. They fire the employees who take part but then there are more employees who crop up in their place; there are just too many to fire them all. And Microsoft still provides a lot of support to Israel, so don't be fooled into thinking that things are over.
“If you keep using our tech to slaughter Palestinians we’re going to have put a stop to it….later….after they are all dead and we’ve made our money”
Because there are so few Palestinians left alive that they can be surveyed using binoculars, pen and paper now? Sure, it's great they stopped, but they sure took they sweet time...
It's a start. Not enough, just a start.
After Guardian reveals secret spy project.
Put the emphasis on Guardian, reveals, or secret. It's all valid.
Guardian didn't reveal a secret here. This just finally got them enough bad PR that it started to effect the bottom line.
+972 Magazine (an Israeli anti-genocide publication) and Drop Site News actually were the first ones to break the story.
sureeee. I am gonna press x.
Someone is going to pick up this business.
I guess all of the people who quit, or were forced out over this, are just shit out of luck?
Uh oh. Trump will not like that.
Nee er doing the wrong thing is better. It is me never too late to do the right thing though.
Hypocritical corporate virtue signaling at best
I'll take anything that's a move in the right direction at this point. Gaza is the modern-day Holocaust and anything that moves the needle to make the killing stop is a good thing.
Microsoft claims they cut of some services from isereal's unit 8200
Some doesn't meal all
Also it's a claim from Microsoft in a email seen by the guardian, we don't know ìf the claim is actually true and they could be continuing in secret
Yeah, this needs to be praised or they'll just decide it's never worth appeasing the left. You don't need to say they're a great company or anything, but this is a good move. If they see that they give this up and get nothing in return then guess what they'll do next time? Absolutely nothing, or maybe shift to the right where they'll actually be rewarded.
Yeah, 3 years and they did not bother check how their tech was used by a state spy agency? Only review when journalists find out? Makes me wanna puke. And Amazon now hosting the data of mass surveilance...not one better than the other.
In the meantime will M$ reinstate all the employees they fired? Latest a month ago... Cuz well, they were right. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/microsoft-fires-four-workers-on-site-protests-over-companys-ties-israel-2025-08-29/
Why are you talking like Microsoft didn't know? They didn't need "to check" or to "review". They knew and didn't care until it started impacting their bottom line.
They didn't fire those employees because they thought they were wrong. They fired them for making a scene. For drawing public and news media attention to it. To try and stop the protesting employees from influencing even more employees.
This isn't some "oopsie poopsies, we didn't know! our bad!" thing.
In case it wasn't clear, companies will gladly kill you if it pads their bottom line. Their only principle is "make more money".