0107.json

{
    "id": 397,
    "date": "2018/07/26",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/technology/microsoft-ice-immigration.html",
        "https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/microsoft-backtracks-proud-support-ice-blog-post-goes-viral-n884446"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "open letter",
        "protest"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "ethics"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "white collar workers",
        "inhouse workers"
    ],
    "description": "Two Microsoft employees presented their CEO with an online petition including more than 300,000 signatures (including 500 employees) calling for the firm to cancel their contract with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. The action took place during an annual gathering at company headquarters. Earlier in the year, the company had published a blog post saying it was \"proud to support\" the agency through technologies that included facial recognition software.",
    "online": true,
    "locations": [
        "redwood shores-california-usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "microsoft"
    ],
    "workers": 500,
    "tags": [
        "ai",
        "ice",
        "trump"
    ],
    "author": [
        "nataliyaned"
    ],
    "latlngs": null,
    "addresses": null
}