*[Enwl-eng] Microsoft

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            Don't know about you, but I could sure go for a bit of good news today.

            Here's your Coronavirus Mental Health Break: 

            Last week, you made something amazing happen, Microsoft announced it will sell all of its shares of civil-liberties-abusing facial recognition tech company AnyVision. 

            Microsoft announced it during the Friday afternoon media graveyard shift hoping that no press would pick up the story. But NBC News snapped the story up and credited the human rights organizations involved in the #DropAnyVision campaign for the win! 

            That's right, YOU, yes you were instrumental in forcing Microsoft to respect its own ethical principles in rolling out dangerous facial recognition technology. Now, the world looks a little less like an Orwellian dystopian nightmare because of your actions. 



            Sometimes we think that clicking on a petition doesn't matter, well, in this case SumOfUs members set things in motion, forced the media to scrutinize AnyVision, forced Microsoft to launch an investigation into AnyVision with Eric Holder at the helm and, ultimately, brought down the insidious AnyVision-Microsoft partnerships. 

            When SOU members like you decide to take action, large corporations take notice. 

            The #DropAnyVision campaign was powered by SumOfUs and MPower members under the leadership of Jewish Voices for Peace. In January, the #DropAnyVision campaign held a teach-in and petition delivery at Microsoft campus in Redmond. Activists delivered a 75,000-signature petition, passed out fliers to Microsoft workers and discussed how Microsoft is violating its own six ethical principles on facial recognition technology. 

            Together, we made change happen.

            Help us continue leading amazing campaigns against digital espionnage and civil rights abuses in this midst of this COVID crisis when the health surveillance state is rising by chipping in a monthly donation.


            Thanks for all that you do, 
            Luca and the team at SumOfUs



            More information:

            Microsoft sells stake in Israeli facial recognition company, NBC News, March 6, 2020. 


           
              
       






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      From: Luca Palladino, SumOfUs 
      Sent: Friday, April 03, 2020 8:16 PM
      Subject: re: Microsoft

     





 
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