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| Brad Smith - President

Microsoft commits to achieve ‘zero waste’ goals by 2030

| Lucas Joppa - Chief Environmental Officer

Progress on our goal to be carbon negative by 2030

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| Julie Brill - Corporate Vice President for Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Privacy Officer

Assuring customers about EU cross-border data flows

| Jacqueline Beauchere - Global Digital Safety Advocate

Online civility improved in APAC during COVID-19, declined in Latin America, Microsoft study

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| Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust

Microsoft takes legal action against COVID-19-related cybercrime

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| Brad Smith - President

Microsoft launches initiative to help 25 million people worldwide acquire the digital skills needed in a COVID-19 economy

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| Ethan Chumley - Senior Security Strategist, Defending Democracy Program

Increasing election security monitoring in cloud computing

Brad Smith with Microsoft Employees Outside the Supreme Court in November 2019

| Brad Smith - President

A Supreme Court ruling upholds the rights of the nation’s Dreamers

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| Jan Neutze - Senior Director, Digital Diplomacy.

New tools to secure democracy

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| Courtney Gregoire - Chief Digital Safety Officer

Fighting child exploitation as an industry

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| Brad Smith - President

COVID-19 has only intensified the broadband gap

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| Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust

Staying safe and smart in the internet-of-things era

| Frank X. Shaw - Corporate Vice President, Communications, Microsoft

Bid high, lose, try again. Amazon continues to push for a JEDI re-do

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| Lucas Joppa - Chief Environmental Officer

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, our environmental commitments are as crucial as ever

| Jennifer Yokoyama - Chief IP Counsel

Closing the data divide: the need for open data

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| John Kahan - Chief Data Analytics Officer

New differential privacy platform co-developed with Harvard’s OpenDP unlocks data while safeguarding privacy

Open Covid Pledge

| Jennifer Yokoyama - Chief IP Counsel

Microsoft commits patents to help fight COVID-19

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| Julie Brill, CVP for Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Privacy Officer; Peter Lee, CVP for Research and Incubation

Preserving privacy while addressing COVID-19

| Jon Palmer - Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft

It bid high and lost. Should Amazon be allowed a do-over on JEDI?

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| Jan Neutze - Senior Director, Digital Diplomacy.

Protecting democracy, especially in a time of crisis

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| Rolf Harms - GM, C+AI Strategy

Social contact as the new scarce resource

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| Justin Spelhaug - General Manager, Microsoft Philanthropies

New AI-powered knowledge hub to fuel social innovation

| Microsoft Corporate Blogs

Statement on the recent Greenpeace report

| Microsoft Corporate Blogs

Microsoft releases biannual digital trust reports

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| Brad Smith - President

A healthy society requires a healthy planet

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| Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust

Protecting healthcare and human rights organizations from cyberattacks