An Open Letter to Microsoft: Drop your $19.4 million ICE tech contract
Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft; Brad Smith, Microsoft President; Lily Kim, General Manager of Azure Government; Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data
As concerned scientists, scholars, and researchers, we condemn the use of technology for inhumane surveillance, detention, deportation, and border militarization. We support Microsoft workers who have signed a letter to demand that Microsoft drop its contract with ICE.
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To:
Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft; Brad Smith, Microsoft President; Lily Kim, General Manager of Azure Government; Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data
From:
[Your Name]
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
Axel Bruns, Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruth Perry, Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of the Humanities, MacVicar Fellow, Literature Faculty Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ceasar McDowell, Professor of the Practice of Civic Design, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Pesetsky, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sarah J. Jackson, Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Mike Ananny, Associate Professor of Communication and Journalism, and past postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England, University of Southern California
Mary Waters, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
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Judith Donath, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
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Dayna Cunningham, Executive Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Community Innovators Lab
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John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Kate Hennessy, Associate Professor specializing in Media, Simon Fraser University, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Karen Levy, Assistant Professor of Information Science, Cornell University
Sree Harsha T, Project coordinator , Centre for sustainable agriculture
Geert-Jan van Bussel, Assistant Professor Digital Archiving & Compliance and CEO Van Bussel Document Services, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Madeline Pierce
Ian Condry, Professor, Global Studies and Languages, MIT
Roman Yampolskiy, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville
Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Postdoctoral fellow, University of California San Francisco
Carolyn Draper
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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[14] See https://gizmodo.com/amazon-workers-demand-jeff-bezos-cancel-face-recognitio-1827037509