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Microsoft has pulled its minority investment out of a facial recognition startup that made headlines last year for allegedly surveilling Palestinians, the tech giant said Friday. Microsoft also said it would halt any minority investments in companies selling facial-recognition technology. 

A Microsoft-funded investigation led by former US Attorney General Eric Holder determined that AnyVision’s technology doesn’t power mass surveillance in the West Bank. Nevertheless, Microsoft said it’s divested itself of the AnyVision holding and won’t be a minority stakeholder in any other facial recognition firms because it can’t…