A total of 18 people were arrested on Wednesday during the protests conducted by workers at Microsoft headquarters. Employees require the company to interrupt their ties with Israel in the middle of the ongoing war in Gaza.
The protests held by two consecutive days on the Redmond campus in Washington came when Microsoft announced an “urgent” overview of how the Israeli army uses its technology.
But unlike Tuesday, when about 35 protesters occupying the deputy between office buildings that left after Microsoft asked them to leave, the protesters “resisted and became aggressive” after the company told the police, according to the police department Redmond. They also brought a red color reminiscent of blood color to the indicative sign that bears the company’s logo.
Police said, “We said,” Please leave or be arrested “and decided not to leave, so they were detained.”
What Microsoft said about Israel’s defensive forces using Azure
Last week, Microsoft said she was examining the law firm to investigate the claims that The Guardian reported that the Israeli defensive forces relied on their cloud platform Azure to store data on the phone call collected through the mass supervision of Gaza and the West Bank.
“Microsoft’s standard terms and conditions are forbidden to use this type of use,” the company said in a statement published on Friday, adding that the report causes “accurate accusations that deserve a complete and urgent review”.
In February, the Associated Press revealed previously unclear details of the narrow partnership of the technology giant with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, with military use of commercial artificial news products that rose almost 200 times after the deadly attack Hamas 7 October 2023.
The AP said the Israeli army uses Azure to transcribe, translate and process intelligence collected by mass supervision, which can then be crossed by Israeli internal AI targeting systems.
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