Jul 25, 2020
The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud
Posted by Roger Dufur in categories: drones, government, robotics/AI, surveillance
Microsoft has partnered with scores of police surveillance vendors who run their products on a “Government Cloud” supplied by the company’s Azure division and that it is pushing platforms to wire police field operations, including drones, robots.
Microsoft helps police surveil and patrol communities through its own offerings and a network of partnerships — while its PR efforts obscure this.