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Pressured on Israel work, Microsoft asks employees to flag violations
- zbentley 11mo agoNon-paywalled link: https://archive.is/pQt2k https://archive.is/pQt2k
- embedding-shape 11mo agoThis seems to be the background story to why this is being added now, so it could be flagged earlier: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-bloc... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45373564 - 873 points | 43 days ago | 867 comments)
- londons_explore 11mo agoIf I were needing a place to store the phone calls of millions of people recorded without consent for speech recognition, sentiment analysis etc, I wouldn't use a public cloud provider simply because the chances of a data leak would be too high. All that stuff would be best done with a big order to Dell and renting space in a data center nearby (ie. Not overseas)