US EditionDutch Activists Scale Microsoft Data Center Roof over Israeli
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Dutch activists scale Microsoft data center roof over Israeli
LONDON: Activists in the Netherlands have taken over the roof of a Microsoft data center after it was revealed that the tech giant stores data for the Israeli military in the country. The Geef Tegengas (Push Back) group said the Microsoft Azure platform, which uses servers in the Netherlands, was being used to store intercepted phone data from Palestinians by Israeli military
According to a report, Israel's military has recorded millions of hours of telephone calls from Palestinians and partially stored the data on Microsoft servers in the Netherlands. Now there was a protest on the site.
Millions of phone calls: Last week, an investigation by The Guardian revealed that Microsoft had eavesdropped on millions of Israeli intelligence services' calls…
Activists have occupied a data center of the U.S. software company Microsoft in the Netherlands, protesting against the use of Microsoft's Azure cloud to store gigantic amounts of data by Israel's militia. (Continue reading)
Pro-Palestine activists protest at Microsoft's site in the Netherlands over Israeli military data
Microsoft has been facing the heat of pro-Palestine protestors in recent years. Now, protesters have targeted a Microsoft data center in the Netherlands over alleged Israeli military data storage. According to an investigative report by The Guardian, Israel’s Unit 8200 has stored 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian communications. That amount equals roughly 200 million hours […]
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