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A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

including Puma dropping its sponsorship of Israel’s soccer team in 2024 and Microsoft itself selling its stake in Israeli facial-recognition company AnyVision in 2020. It has started this ...

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She referenced Microsoft's past decision to drop contracts with AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition company, after employee and community protests. Her demonstration comes amid broader unrest ...

In 2020, they and other civil liberty groups spoke out against Microsoft's stake in AnyVision, an Israeli start-up whose face recognition technology has been used at checkpoints in border crossings ...

Microsoft has faced similar criticisms in the past. In 2020, the company came under fire for investing in AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition startup accused of surveilling Palestinians at border ...

Microsoft has invested in Israeli AI and cyber firms like AnyVision, accused of providing facial recognition tech used to monitor Palestinians in the West Bank. After public outcry and an internal ...