# Tech Workers Challenge Military Links in Big Tech > Source: > Published: 2026-07-08 21:00:00+00:00 In These Times profiles tech workers challenging **military and surveillance contracts** at major AI/cloud companies, including organizer **Hossam Nasr** and the **No Azure for Apartheid** campaign at Microsoft. The piece is an advocacy feature, so claims about specific military use should stay attributed to the publication, worker groups, Microsoft statements, and independent reporting rather than treated as settled by LDS. For practitioners, the operational lesson is concrete: defense-linked AI and cloud work can create hiring, retention, compliance, and reputational risks even when the underlying service is general-purpose infrastructure. Microsoft has publicly said past reviews found no evidence of Azure or AI being used to target or harm people in Gaza, while later reviews limited some services after separate surveillance reporting.