300 Microsoft Employees Threaten Resignation in ICE Protest

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More on the fury over ICE detaining immigrant children and families, Microsoft employees, who created the information management software ICE uses have “[requested] that Microsoft cancel its contracts with ICE, and with other clients who directly enable ICE (Henney).” In an article by Fox News (https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/at-microsoft-300-workers-protest-ice-contract-threaten-to-resign) the employees went on to say “as the people who build the technologies that Microsoft profits from, we refuse to be complicit (Henney).” The ICE contract is “worth $19.4 million (Henney).” The letter threatening resignation of employees who signed “initially had more than 100 signatures, but has grown to more than 300 (Henney).” However despite knowledge of only the information management systems Microsoft has created, there are fears that Microsoft also supplied ICE with “deep-learning capabilities and accelerated facial recognition technology, according to FOX Business’ Deirdre Bolton (Henney).”

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