Workers at several Silicon Valley companies were up in arms over the issue, but Microsoft came under particular scrutiny from its employees because the company has a contract for processing data and artificial intelligence capabilities with ICE. The agency had been separating migrant parents and their children at the border with Mexico. Last month, Microsoft employees circulated a letter that called on their employer to cancel all contracts with ICE, among other measures. It added that it was “dismayed” by the Trump administration’s immigration policy and urged that it be changed. The scrutiny comes as Microsoft has been positioning itself as a moral leader of the technology industry.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2018 00:22 UTC