As concerned scientists, scholars, and researchers, we condemn the use of technology for inhumane surveillance, detention, deportation, and border militarization.

We are appalled at the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy and the dramatic increase in family separation and child detention. [1] High-profile political leaders from across the aisle have condemned this policy; Pope Francis denounced it as "immoral;"[2] and the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics has characterized the policy as "child abuse.”[3] Nor do we support the administration’s recent proposal to ‘solve’ the problem by placing entire families in detention together for extended periods of time.

Yet despite ICE’s abhorrent practices, in January 2018, Microsoft announced a contract with ICE to use the Azure Government platform, boasting that it would help to “accelerate facial recognition and identification,” and stating that “[ICE] is currently implementing transformative technologies for homeland security and public safety, and we're proud to support this work with our mission-critical cloud.”[4]

In response, more than 300 Microsoft workers have signed a letter to Satya Nadella requesting that Microsoft cancel all its contracts with ICE.[5]

We stand in support of these workers and their demands.

We also recognize that “the cloud” is not simply general purpose infrastructure; clouds are complex systems optimized for some needs and not others. During the recent mobilization of Google workers against Project Maven,[6] when Google claimed that the military could still carry out the work without Google’s help, Google workers knew better. In fact, Google had even gone so far as to design custom microprocessors — TPUs, or Tensor Processing Units — to speed up ‘inference’ to keep up with real time image, sound, and video flows.[7]

Similarly, engineers for Microsoft Azure Government are tasked with developing AI and systems architectures to suit major clients — the largest of which are government and military agencies. Microsoft’s cloud services APIs, or application program interfaces, can identify faces as well as translate audio in real time. A Senior Program Manager at Microsoft praised the technology’s capabilities in April, listing use cases like “real time interviews, border patrol, immigration. I mean, a lot of this the sky’s the limit with your imagination.”[8]

So the cloud is not just a neutral, free and open resource — describing it this way is technologically inaccurate and ethically irresponsible. As clouds and algorithms are increasingly used by government agencies, scholars have shown how those same algorithms are used to make bureaucratic judgments without oversight, audit, or appeal.[9] Microsoft’s, Google's, and Amazon’s rush to provide cloud translation software for ICE[10] demonstrates how society's computing skills and resources have been increasingly directed towards technologies of surveillance, exclusion, and control, rather than towards the common good.

We call on Microsoft, and all tech firms with ICE contracts, to drop those contracts immediately. Anything short of cancellation constitutes compliance with inhumane, abusive practices.

We call on other tech firms, big and small, to publicly acknowledge their contracts with U.S. government agencies, to drop contracts with ICE, and to take an ethical stance on the technologies they develop, just as Google did in dropping its AI contract with the DoD.[11] Moral and political opposition from tech industry workers and researchers will help end human rights abuses at the border and throughout the immigration system. We also recognize the links between border militarization, overpolicing, mass incarceration, and war,[12] and support not only Microsoft workers in their call to drop ICE contracts, but also Google workers who forced their company to drop DoD contracts[13] and Amazon workers who demand that the company boot privatized spy agency Palantir[14].

Furthermore, we pledge to never work on technologies that are used for the detention and deportation system; we urge other researchers and scientists to publicly state that they too will never work on technologies used to support this system; and we promise to support the growing movement for ethical technology in our research, in our classrooms, and in the public sphere.

SIGNED,

[Note: The following list will be updated regularly as more people sign.]

Sasha Costanza-Chock, Associate Professor of Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Catherine D'Ignazio, Assistant Professor of Civic Media & Data Visualization, Emerson College

Alondra Nelson, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Greg Morrisett, Dean, Faculty of Computing & Information Science, Cornell University

Ruha Benjamin, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

Nancy Krieger, Professor of Social Epidemiology and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sarah Banet-Weiser, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies, The University of Virginia

Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill Univesity

Jason Beckfield, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Harvard University

Edmund Bertschinger, Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Louis Kampf, Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vincent Mosco, Emeritus Professor, Former Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen's University

Heather Lechtman, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient Technology; Director, Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mark Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University

Lilly Irani, Assistant Professor of Communication, Science Studies, and Critical Gender Studies, University of California San Diego

Safiya Noble, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Joy Buolamwini, Founder, Algorithmic Justice League

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Nancy nanc, Faculty in the English Department , Shoreline Community College

Kayla Weiner

Joan Schrammeck

Araceli Hernandez, Activist, Casa Latina

Alx Dark, Principal Software Engineer, Sage Bionetworks

Andrea Canini, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Washington

Elizabeth Butler, Cancel contract with ICE

Cecilia Noecker, Research assistant/PhD student, University of Washington

Christoph Strouse, Student : Community Environment & Planning, University of Washington

Colin B, Software Engineer, University of Washington

Eleanor Hoague, Attorney, Chairwoman of LIFT, LIFT

Rutger Ceballos, PhD Student, University of Washington

David Van Horn, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland

Lael White, Health care Provider, Greenlake Health Center

Robert Crawford, Professor Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma

Thomas Watson, Patent Attorney, Amin, Turocy & Watson LLP

Irene Danysh, co-chair ACLU People Power Burien WA, ACLU People Power

Nancy Farrell, teacher, Tacoma Public Schools

Mariaelena Castillo

Sue McCabe, Public School Educator

Amy Nelson

Karla Garcia

Kristin Lysaker, Adult Basic Ed Faculty , South Seattle College

Kirsten Lysen

Eric Holzapfel, Immigration Manager, Entre Hermanos

Carolyn Turnovsky, Sociologist

Jeanna Wheeler, PhD, Research Scientist,

Maria Rivera

Daniel Dylewsky, PhD Student in Physics, University of Washington, Seattle

Sumyat Thu, PhD Candidate and Writing Instructor , University of Washington

Jennifer Duncan

Jamie Mayerfeld, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington

Michelle Salgado, Graduate Student Researcher, University of Washington

Pamela Gidwani

James McIver, Programmer Analyst

Jonnie Penn, Doctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge

Susannah Glickman, Graduate student, Columbia University

Shannon Carpenter

Laurie Peek

Kwan Wah Lui

Emily George, Instructor, University of Washington

Erin Rants

Nebras Almaslamani

K Severson

Rita Margolies, retired researcher, ex Microsoft employee

Philip Sherwood, Retired

Janine Sy, RN, Swedish Medical Center

Ahmed Ansari, Lecturer & PhD Candidate, Design Studies, Carnegie Mellon University

Margaret Beissinger, Research Scholar, Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literatures, Princeton University

Davie Nemerever, Medical Transcriptionist , University of Washington

Hannah Horowitz, Research associate , University of Washington

Theresa Crecelius, Medical Laboratory Scientist, University of Washington

N. Berkheiser, M.D.

Linda Storm, Ecologist, University of Washington

Ky Cochran

Andrew Hill

Basil Hariri, Software Engineer, Microsoft

John Cheney-Lippold, Associate Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan

Anna Lees, Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Education, Western Washington University

Jody Lineman, High School Teacher, Bothell High School

Michael Middleton, Owner, Texas Star Net, LLC.

Adele Reynolds

Alex Ahmed, Doctoral Student in Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University

Amy Casebolt, People Scientist Intern and Master's Candidate, Seattle Pacific University

Lynn Bottge

Aaron Katz, Principal Lecturer, University of Washington School of Public Health

Maria Elena Garcia, Associate Professor of International Studies and Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington

May Saetern

Veronica D'Orazio, teacher

Karen Doxey, 3rd Grade Teacher, Seattle Public Schools

Amanda Fry, Supervisor, DCYF

Joanna Armstrong,

Angel Ojeda, Civil Servant,

Jennifer Hoang

Nora Kenworthy, Assistant Professor, University of Washington Bothell

Mark Ho, Postdoctoral Researcher EECS, University of California Berkeley

Ani Kodzhabasheva, PhD Candidate, Columbia University

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[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/06/19/621065383/what-we-know-family-separation-and-zero-tolerance-at-the-border
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/world/europe/pope-francis-trump-child-separation.html
[3] https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/06/18/colleen-kraft-american-academy-of-pediatrics-family-separation-child-abuse-ath.cnn
[4] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azuregov/2018/01/24/federal-agencies-continue-to-advance-capabilities-with-azure-government/
[5] https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/21/17488328/microsoft-ice-employees-signatures-protest
[6] https://gizmodo.com/google-plans-not-to-renew-its-contract-for-project-mave-1826488620
[7] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/247199-googles-dedicated-tensorflow-processor-tpu-makes-hash-intel-nvidia-inference-workloads
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QucpwVAehf4
[9] Pasquale 2015 The Black Box Society; Eubanks 2018 Automating Inequality; Noble 2018 Algorithms of Oppression.
[10] https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/05/microsoft-invades-amazons-turf-spookville/148243
[11] See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/google-to-drop-pentagon-ai-contract-after-employees-called-it-the-business-of-war/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7cdbbc18c89d
[12] Hernandez, Kelly Lytle, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Heather Ann Thompson. "Introduction: constructing the carceral state." The Journal of American History 102, no. 1 (2015): 18-24.
See also http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/06/21/pers-j21.html;
[13] See https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/google-to-drop-pentagon-ai-contract-after-employees-called-it-the-business-of-war/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.7cdbbc18c89d
[14] See https://gizmodo.com/amazon-workers-demand-jeff-bezos-cancel-face-recognitio-1827037509