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...
A torrent of controversy has swept the global tech and human rights landscape following revelations that Israel’s elite military intelligence—Unit 8200—has for years harnessed Microsoft Azure’s cloud infrastructure for one of the most sweeping mass surveillance operations ever exposed. Leaked...
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Israel's military intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has been utilizing Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to store and analyze vast amounts of intercepted Palestinian communications, including millions of phone calls from Gaza and the occupied West Bank. This cloud-based system, operational since...
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Recent investigations have unveiled that Israel's elite cyber-intelligence unit, Unit 8200, has been utilizing Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to store and analyze vast amounts of intercepted communications from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. This collaboration, initiated in 2021, has...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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A seismic shift in the global conversation around technology, privacy, and warfare has erupted as new revelations expose the depths of an unprecedented partnership between Microsoft and Israel’s Unit 8200 – a collaboration that has brought industrial-scale surveillance of Palestinians into the...
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The doors to the Pentagon’s most secretive digital halls just swung a little wider, and the key is… artificial intelligence. Buried beneath the technical jargon and press-release triumph is a profound shift in the U.S. government’s AI strategy: Microsoft’s OpenAI-enabled Azure offerings...
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