No Azure for Apartheid call on Microsoft to cut ties with ICE, amid reports of agency deepening reliance on company's cloud and AI

No Azure For Apartheid reason Microsoft tech "powers ICE's unit towards migrants and communities successful the United States"

In the aftermath of reports claiming that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau (ICE) deepened their reliance connected Microsoft’s unreality exertion past year, No Azure for Apartheid person issued a connection demanding the institution chopped ties with the agency.

No Azure for Apartheid are the aforesaid worker-led radical who've carried retired protests against Microsoft's dealings with the Israeli military, amid what Amnesty International and a UN enquiry person called a genocide successful Gaza.

According to reporting from The Guardian and spouse publications +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this week, leaked documents bespeak that ICE accrued the magnitude of information it stored connected Microsoft’s Azure unreality level from from 400 terabytes arsenic of July 2025 to astir 1,400 terabytes arsenic of January 2026. The bureau are besides reportedly utilizing Microsoft "productivity tools, arsenic good arsenic AI-driven products, to hunt and analyse the data".

In a connection to The Guardian, a Microsoft spokesperson said that portion they bash "[provide] cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools to DHS and ICE" via "key partners", the company's policies and presumption of work "do not let our exertion to beryllium utilized for the wide surveillance of civilians, and we bash not judge ICE is engaged successful specified activity".

Following this reporting, No Azure for Apartheid person issued a connection connected the taxable to PC Gamer. "No Azure for Apartheid recognizes that the aforesaid Microsoft Cloud & AI exertion that forms the technological backbone of Israel's apartheid and genocide is the aforesaid exertion that powers ICE's unit towards migrants and communities successful the United States," the radical wrote.

"We, arsenic Microsoft workers, basal successful solidarity some with Palestinians and the communities and families successful the United States who are being terrorized, detained, murdered, and deported by ICE," they continued. "We echo the demands of hundreds of workers and assemblage members who spoke retired arsenic aboriginal arsenic 2018 to request Microsoft chopped ties with ICE."

I've reached retired to Microsoft for comment.

Microsoft reportedly revoked the Israeli military's entree to definite Azure unreality and generative AI technologies successful September past year, pursuing reporting that this tech was being utilized for surveilance of Palestinians successful Gaza and the West Bank.