{"id":35495,"date":"2018-06-19T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=a9b04aa131ae099f094f9263082c2d18"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:42:28","slug":"microsofts-work-with-ice-sparks-backlash-among-tech-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsofts-work-with-ice-sparks-backlash-among-tech-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s work with ICE sparks backlash among tech community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/joe-curtis\">Joe Curtis<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">19 Jun, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p> Microsoft is under pressure from the tech community to terminate a contract it holds with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in light of the department&#8217;s family separation policy.<\/p>\n<p>A blog post published in January has resurfaced in the last couple of days, detailing how Microsoft &#8220;is proud to support&#8221; ICE&#8217;s IT innovation aims through its Azure Government platform.<\/p>\n<p>A protest is taking place later today outside Microsoft&#8217;s DC office about the issue, and employees are being encouraged to speak out online.<\/p>\n<p>Erica Baker, a senior engineering manager at Patreon, said on Twitter: &#8220;Friends who work for @Microsoft, FIGHT THIS. Make the biggest noise imaginable about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t fall for the &#8220;all companies take government contracts&#8221; spin. Your company has THIS contract and is *proud* of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-widget-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3frlM1pUmV\">https:\/\/t.co\/3frlM1pUmV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EricaJoy (@EricaJoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricaJoy\/status\/1008755984829853696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\nA spokesperson for Microsoft said it&#8217;s not working with ICE or US Customers and Border Protection &#8220;on any projects related to separating children from their families&#8221;, and doesn&#8217;t believe its Azure services are supporting such projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a company, Microsoft is dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families at the border,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge the administration to change its policy and Congress to pass legislation ensuring children are no longer separated from their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Its original <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/azuregov\/2018\/01\/24\/federal-agencies-continue-to-advance-capabilities-with-azure-government\/\" >blog post<\/a>, written by Tom Keane, general manager at Microsoft, read: &#8220;ICE&#8217;s decision to accelerate IT modernization using Azure Government will help them innovate faster while reducing the burden of legacy IT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The agency is currently implementing transformative technologies for homeland security and public safety, and we&#8217;re proud to support this work with our mission-critical cloud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This section was reportedly removed from the blog by an employee earlier in response to the social media outburst, but was later re-inserted.<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture: Bigstock<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Joe Curtis<\/p>\n<p>        19 Jun, 2018    <\/p>\n<p>       Microsoft is under pressure from the tech community to terminate a contract it holds with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in light of the department&#8217;s family separation policy.<br \/>\nA bl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35516,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35495\/revisions\/35516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}