Overview

• Redmond Police arrested seven people on trespassing and obstruction charges after a livestreamed sit-in inside Building 34, where Microsoft temporarily locked down the executive offices.
• Brad Smith said two of those arrested are current Microsoft employees and accused the group of blocking access and hiding phones as crude listening devices.
• Microsoft said it will adapt security procedures and acknowledged a prior inquiry by a security staffer to the FBI seeking information about potential protests in the Seattle area.
• The sit-in was organized by No Azure for Apartheid, which is demanding the company cut ties with Israel and pay reparations to Palestinians, following 20 arrests at a campus protest last week.
• Microsoft reiterated its human-rights commitments and confirmed an external review into reporting that Israel’s Unit 8200 used Azure to store and process Palestinians’ phone-call data.