And there's nothing wrong with trying to influence the behavior of the company you work for. If the company I worked for did something similarly disagreeable I'd feel like a pretty shitty person if I ignored it. .. but for a paycheck.
I'd say it's commendable so far but "Up in Arms" .. we'll see. If this is a valid angle of rejecting the behavior of your government then it's as good as any.
Google had their pains when their Pentagon contract was met with opposition and here is a recent ACLU petition against Amazon for using facial recognition with the government.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/amazon-stop-selling-surveil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#Summary
> Data generated by means of counting and alphabetization equipment supplied by IBM through its German and other national subsidiaries was instrumental in the efforts of the German government to concentrate and ultimately destroy ethnic Jewish populations across Europe.[22] Black reports that every Nazi concentration camp maintained its own Hollerith-Abteilung (Hollerith Department), assigned with keeping tabs on inmates through use of IBM's punchcard technology.[23] In his book, Black charges that "without IBM's machinery, continuing upkeep and service, as well as the supply of punch cards, whether located on-site or off-site, Hitler's camps could have never managed the numbers they did."[24]
Given how many players there are in the IaaS/PaaS space, it's inevitable that ICE will inevitably find a contractor willing to support them. But those at the organizations with the most robust and advanced cloud offerings can slow down this process, and thus have a moral obligation to demonstrate to their employers the hidden cost of enabling unethical regimes.
why not have vendors we know we can take to the task of due diligence? Our bordering countries have more stringent immigration policies but we don't see the gnashing of teeth when we try to move towards similar strategies. With regards to the child separation issue that was even being done by the prior administration but never received as much headlines. At end of April there were 10k children separated but held in protective care, in 2013 it was 25k. We have this influx because the wrong message is communicated into foreign countries. This means all the dangers of passing through Mexico which doesn't want them either and don't even think of going to Canada
I'm curious if in fact you reviewed other cloud offerings such as AWS and GCE and determined that Azure was the best fit, and if so, on which metrics?
I think this makes Amazon the default winner of the large Pentagon cloud contract. Both Google and Microsoft have shown that they have employees who leak and cause issues for the government.
The Fortune 500 is made up of a lot of very large companies that have at least a division involved in Department of Defense contracts, or in oil, or in sugary foods, or some other endeavor that someone inside Google or Microsoft might find offensive. I am sure they are watching this drama with interest and have no intention of getting dragged through the mud due to rogue employees.
I hope everybody is happy with AWS continued domination of the cloud business.
You can take all that spiel* about Data Privacy being a Human Right and toss it out the window as well, Microsoft.
*https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/103709739/...