Microsoft has said it will tighten human-rights controls when working with national security agencies after an inquiry into how the Israeli military used its cloud technology for the mass surveillance of Palestinians.

On Thursday, Microsoft announced the completion of the inquiry and a series of new measures that include changes to how the company oversees employees with security clearances issued by foreign governments.

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

This and other stuff like letting people turn bing off, what happen, did that loser Nadella have an epiphany?

Did he live through a timewarp Twilight Zone nightmare where he suffers at the hands of the white nationalist regime he supported during the election?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Nope. It's crowd control.

    Copilot has been fucking up and they said it was an optional experience and since it's also baked into edge, they gotta make it optional as well in case of lawsuits.

    Also, the human rights thing just means they'll tighten up about whistleblowers, not respecting actual human rights.

    Edit: in my current opinion.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    It only took Microsoft years of supporting a genocide, the occupation and ethnic cleansing of more land in Gaza, the west bank and southern Lebanon than the entirety of the Russian occupied Ukrainian territories and the creation of a death penalty exclusively for non jews before Microsoft even thought about looking into this.

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    [–] 32 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    anyone else remember when some employees protested at a ceremony saying that their AI will soon aid genocide?

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah fucking right.

    I've seen what happens to ethics teams in orgs. It's always a joke. They generally mean well and often times there really is a whole team trying to get a company to do the right thing, but nobody at the C level gives a shit when personal enrichment is on the line. If they did, they wouldn't be C level at a company with that kind of wealth.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago*

    Oftentimes the ethics team just acts as a warning system for C-Suite to inform them of all the things that people might raise a stink about and lets them prepare a response in advance.

    As you say, this is not usually done on purpose as the people on those teams genuinely want to make things better, but it is often how it plays out.

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