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 blocked access to some services for Israel's Ministry of Defense after reports of surveillance on Palestinians' phone calls in Gaza and the West Bank.
- Brad Smith, Microsoft's President, announced that the company has ceased services to Unit 8200 due to its involvement in mass surveillance of civilians.
- The Guardian reported that Unit 8200 used Microsoft's Azure platform to store millions of calls daily, aiding military operations.
- Despite this decision, Microsoft continues to maintain other contracts with the Israel Defense Forces, indicating ongoing complex relationships.
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‘Mass surveillance of civilians’: Microsoft cuts off Israeli Defense Ministry after spying investigation
Microsoft has officially “ceased and disabled” certain services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) after an internal review found evidence supporting claims of mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians. This is a massive piece of news, especially since the company’s own Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith, shared a direct communication about the decision with employees. The initial allegations surfaced in an article by The …
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 cuts Israeli Military off from its Azure Cloud over Mass Surveillance of Civilians
By Binoy Kampmark ( Middle East Monitor) – On 6 August, The Guardian reported that “multiple individuals have asserted that the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces] is using Azure for the storage of files of phone calls obtained through broad or mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank.” The tale began in 2021, when Microsoft, the company responsible for the Azure cloud platform that promises endless wells of data storage, endorsed a pl…
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 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
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