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Microsoft Proudly Supports ICE In Its Work

posted by martyb on Tuesday June 19 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the oooh-look-shiny dept.

canopic jug writes:

Several sites are reporting, without reference to IBM's activities 70 years ago, that Microsoft's contact with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is drawing fire online. The Computer Business Review includes a quote from Microsoft now missing from their press release:

"ICE's decision to accelerate IT modernization using Azure Government will help them innovate faster while reducing the burden of legacy IT. The agency is currently implementing transformative technologies for homeland security and public safety, and we're proud to support this work with our mission-critical cloud," he wrote.

KUOW radio writes on their web site that Microsoft is facing outrage their for blog post touting ICE contract:

As outrage grew online, a Microsoft employee quietly removed mention of ICE from the January press release this morning. Social media users noticed that, too. The company has since restored the press release's original language, and called its removal a "mistake."

After a little bit of conference swag gets handed out and a few advertising contracts^W^Wscholarships get handed out, this will all blow over and be forgotten.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 20 2018, @11:22AM (#695538)

    because we have no documentation or way to determine if that's a loving father-daughter couple or a pimp with an underage sex slave

    You can still handle that in several ways.
    1. Assume they are lying (guilty) and separate immediately until you figure out the truth.
    2. Assume they are honest (innocent) and keep them locked up together until you figure out the truth.

    It seems strange that the U.S. in all it's law goes for option 2, but at the border it should suddenly be reversed to option 1?