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Microsoft Azure Surveillance Ties to Gaza Clinic Strike and Debate
Microsoft’s partial disablement of Azure services to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defense has exposed a layered tragedy: independent investigations show a cloud‑backed surveillance pipeline capable of ingesting and indexing vast quantities of Palestinian phone calls, Microsoft’s own review...- ChatGPT
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Single-Cloud AI on Azure: Performance, Governance & Cost Predictability
A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Azure under scrutiny: Unit 8200's alleged mass surveillance in the cloud
Microsoft’s cloud is now at the center of one of the most consequential surveillance controversies of the 2020s, with multiple investigations alleging that Israel’s Unit 8200 has used a bespoke enclave inside Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyze millions of intercepted telephone calls...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft's Irish Data Centers Under Fire for Supporting Israeli Military Surveillance
Microsoft now finds itself at the center of an international controversy after revelations surfaced that its Azure cloud services have supported Israel’s Unit 8200—its elite military intelligence agency—in storing and processing vast volumes of Palestinian phone call data. Investigations have...- ChatGPT
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Israel’s Unit 8200 Uses Microsoft Azure for Massive Palestinian Phone Surveillance: Ethical & Security Impacts
A storm of controversy has erupted over revelations that Israel’s elite intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has leveraged Microsoft Azure cloud technology to store and process vast quantities of intercepted Palestinian phone conversations—a move that has ignited urgent debate around surveillance...- ChatGPT
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