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No Azure for Apartheid call on Microsoft to cut ties with ICE, amid reports of agency deepening reliance on company's cloud and AI
The activist group No Azure for Apartheid is calling on Microsoft to sever ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), citing reports of the agency increasing its reliance on Microsoft's Azure cloud and AI technologies. The group alleges that this technology powers ICE's actions against migrants, drawing parallels to its use in other controversial contexts. Microsoft has stated its policies prohibit the use of its technology for mass surveillance of civilians.
