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ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show (www.theguardian.com)
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Microsoft, the tool of tyrants.

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[โ€“] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I hate microslop as much as the next guy, but using OneDrive for government stuff isn't exactly evil. Though they gleefully took the cash is still nefarious-adjacent.

[โ€“] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

If they left it at OneDrive that would be one thing, but I don't believe for a second that "We helped enable surveillance and AI targeting of drone strikes in a genocidal campaign" Microsoft is not more deeply involved than OneDrive