Sunday, February 24, 2019

Microsoft employees fight Army's plans to use HoloLens tech to "increase lethality"

Microsoft staff have demanded that the megacorp cancel a $479 million HoloLens contract with the US Military.

In an open letter on Twitter (via Polygon), a group of Microsoft employees united as Microsoft Workers 4 Good are calling on Microsoft president Brad Smith and CEO Satya Nadella to cancel the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) contract and call for "stricter ethical guidelines". The group is also calling for the company to cease weapon tech development and design an acceptable use policy for its products, as well as establish a new ethics board to monitor Microsoft's activities.

Within a day, the petition had over a hundred signatures.

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from Eurogamer.net
by February 24, 2019 at 03:53AM

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