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 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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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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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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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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A recent exposé has unleashed a storm of controversy around the use of Microsoft’s cloud technology in military surveillance operations targeting Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, implicating some of the highest levels of Microsoft and the Israeli intelligence apparatus. At the heart of...
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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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Recent revelations have brought to light a significant collaboration between Microsoft and Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200, raising profound questions about the role of global technology corporations in military operations and surveillance activities.
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Israel’s unprecedented use of Microsoft Azure cloud technology to store and analyze enormous troves of intercepted Palestinian communications has thrust issues of surveillance, corporate ethics, and digital warfare into the global spotlight. A landmark investigation by several media outlets has...
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