Overview

• Police removed seven people from Smith’s Redmond office after a sit-in recorded on a livestream, and the executive said two of those arrested are current employees.
• Organizers from No Azure for Apartheid say they targeted company leadership to press demands that Microsoft end business with Israel and pay reparations to Palestinians.
• Microsoft states that its terms of service prohibit using its technology to target or harm people and that an external investigation is underway following new media reports.
• The Guardian and earlier AP reporting describe Israeli use of Azure to store phone data and to transcribe, translate, and process intelligence gathered from Palestinians.
• Bloomberg reports Microsoft asked the FBI to help trace the protest network and that the company deleted internal posts, flagged emails containing terms like “Gaza,” and suspended or fired participants, as protests escalated with 18 arrests at the campus last week.