US EditionMicrosoft cuts off cloud services to Israeli military unit after report of storing Palestinians’ phone calls
Microsoft disabled AI and cloud services for Israel's Unit 8200 after finding its technology was used to analyze millions of Palestinian calls, violating company policies, officials said.
- Microsoft has cut access to cloud services for Israel's Unit 8200 after it stored surveillance data of Palestinian communications on Azure, following an investigation by The Guardian and others.
- Microsoft Vice Chair Brad Smith stated that the company does not facilitate mass surveillance and aims to protect civilians' privacy rights.
- The decision marks the first instance of a U.S. technology company restricting services to the Israeli military during its ongoing conflict in Gaza.
- Amnesty International researcher Matt Mahmoudi welcomed Microsoft's decision, urging other companies to reconsider their technology ties with Israel's surveillance operations.
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The US giant Microsoft announced that it blocked access to a unit from the Israeli Defence Ministry to its cloud services, after an internal investigation showed that the company's infrastructure was used for a broad monitoring operation of the Palestinian population. The decision marks a rare direct intervention of a major technology company in a sensitive geopolitical context, with implications for the protection of data and respect for human …
Microsoft forced to block Israel’s use of its cloud, AI in mass spying of Palestinians
US tech giant Microsoft has been forced to terminate the Israeli military’s access to some of its services, which the illegal regime uses for espionage activities and data surveillance against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Microsoft Blocks Israeli Spy Agency From Using Its Cloud Platform, Azure
Microsoft has blocked the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store data on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after an investigation conducted by the Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call exposed the practice. The investigation, published in August, revealed that Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s cyberwarfare agency, had been intercepting millions of… Source
Israel stored two hundred million hours of audio recordings of Palestinians through Microsoft. The company ended the cooperation.
Report: In first for a US tech giant, Microsoft terminates Israeli military use of its software - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Microsoft has revoked the Israeli military’s access to a software it used to store data on millions of phone calls by Palestinian civilians, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian. In doing so, the company becoming the first U.S. tech giant to penalize Israel amid its war in Gaza —and following demands from pro-Palestinian activists. The termination of the Israeli military’s access to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform comes a month after …
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