Microsoft criticized for contract with ICE
Microsoft is facing criticism over its relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid the forced separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Social media outrage over the Trump administration’s border policies has drawn attention to a Microsoft cloud computing contract with ICE.
Microsoft says in a blog post Monday that it’s “dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families.”
The company is urging policy changes – but not addressing the details of its ICE partnership.
Microsoft announced in January that it had passed a government security standard enabling it to handle ICE’s most sensitive unclassified data. The company said its computing platform could help the government make faster decisions using facial recognition and other technology.
