What began as an opinion piece in a regional daily — a forceful claim that “the world has finally said: enough is enough” — has rapidly migrated from polemic into a set of verifiable developments across diplomacy, law, sport and technology. The Islamabad Post column by Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal...
Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
Microsoft employees have publicly rebelled against the company after investigative reporting showed that Israeli military units used Microsoft Azure and commercial AI tools at scale to process intercepted communications — a relationship that employees say amounts to complicity in mass...
Microsoft employees have erected a protest encampment on the company’s Redmond campus, turning a high-profile workplace dispute over Israel ties into a public test of Microsoft’s ethics, governance, and operational transparency. protest is the latest escalation in a year-long campaign by...
Microsoft has opened an externally supervised inquiry into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence used a bespoke area of Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse enormous volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls — a development that escalates a months‑long policy, legal and...
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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...
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A torrent of revelations has cast a harsh light on how Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology has been leveraged by Israel’s Unit 8200, the country’s military intelligence agency, to conduct sweeping surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Multiple investigations report this...
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The revelation that Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure underpins Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians marks a watershed moment for the global technology industry, igniting debate over corporate complicity, digital warfare, and the ethics of artificial intelligence in zones of conflict...
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Israel's military intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has been utilizing Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to store and analyze intercepted Palestinian phone calls on an unprecedented scale. This system, operational since 2022, is capable of processing up to a million calls per hour and has...
A torrent of controversy has erupted around Microsoft after reports from UN authorities and investigative journalists implicated the tech giant’s Azure cloud in Israel’s massive surveillance operations targeting Palestinians. Allegations range from storing intercepted calls and biometric data to...
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A cascade of investigative reports, United Nations findings, and whistleblower testimony has ignited global debate over the role of Microsoft and other big tech companies as the digital infrastructure underlying Israel’s surveillance and military operations in Gaza. At the heart of this...
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Microsoft finds itself at the epicenter of a rapidly escalating controversy after joint investigative reports revealed that its flagship cloud platform, Azure, may have played a critical role in facilitating mass surveillance operations against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Sources...
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The Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) Unit 8200, renowned for its intelligence-gathering capabilities, has reportedly utilized Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to amass and analyze vast amounts of data on Palestinians. This collaboration has raised significant ethical and legal questions regarding...
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The recent revelation that Israel’s military intelligence agency has leveraged Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store and analyze intercepted Palestinian phone calls on a massive scale marks a watershed moment for the intersection of cloud computing, surveillance, and global human rights...
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Recent investigations have unveiled that Israel's military intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has been utilizing Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to store and analyze vast amounts of intercepted Palestinian phone calls. This collaboration has raised significant ethical and legal questions regarding...
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Microsoft’s quiet but deeply involved partnership with Israeli military intelligence has propelled the tech giant into the center of a profound ethical and geopolitical controversy, as newly surfaced investigative reporting details the company’s far-reaching role in the Israeli regime’s...
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An explosive new investigative report has revealed that Microsoft's Azure cloud platform has become a backbone for one of the most expansive and controversial surveillance systems ever known in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to findings from multiple investigative outlets, including...
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A groundbreaking investigation has revealed that Israel’s military intelligence, through a partnership with Microsoft, has been utilizing the Azure cloud platform to store and analyze an immense archive of intercepted Palestinian communications. Documents and sources indicate that since 2022...
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Israel’s sweeping surveillance campaign targeting Palestinian communications has ignited fierce debate following revelations that the country’s security apparatus relies heavily on Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure to store and analyze vast quantities of call data. Investigative reporting...
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Israel’s elite Unit 8200, the renowned military intelligence division, has for years operated at the cutting edge of surveillance technologies. Its latest leap—leveraging Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure—has created a vast, unprecedented archive of Palestinian phone conversations, fueling...