Microsoft: No Israeli Military’s Access to Technology 💻🚫🇮🇱
Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls each day in Gaza and the West Bank 📞📡.
Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency 🛰, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform ☁️.
The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by The Guardian 📰. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance program 👀.
In a joint investigation with +972 Magazine and Local Call, The Guardian showed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure, starting after a 2021 meeting between Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel 🤝.
Following the revelations, Microsoft ordered an urgent external inquiry 🔍 into its relationship with Unit 8200. Its initial findings led the company to cancel the unit’s access to some of its cloud storage and AI services 🤖.
Unit 8200 intercepted and collected the calls using its own expansive surveillance capabilities, then processed them in a segregated Azure environment, where data could be stored long-term and analysed with AI-driven techniques 📊.
Although the system initially focused on the West Bank, intelligence sources said the cloud-based storage platform was also used during the Gaza offensive 💥 — facilitating the preparation of deadly airstrikes.
The revelations highlight how Israel relied on the infrastructure of major US technology companies to support its bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians 🕊 and created a deep humanitarian and starvation crisis 🍞💔.
#microsoft #israel #palestinians #azure #platform
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Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls each day in Gaza and the West Bank 📞📡.
Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency 🛰, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform ☁️.
The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by The Guardian 📰. It revealed how Azure was being used to store and process the trove of Palestinian communications in a mass surveillance program 👀.
In a joint investigation with +972 Magazine and Local Call, The Guardian showed how Microsoft and Unit 8200 had worked together on a plan to move large volumes of sensitive intelligence material into Azure, starting after a 2021 meeting between Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel 🤝.
Following the revelations, Microsoft ordered an urgent external inquiry 🔍 into its relationship with Unit 8200. Its initial findings led the company to cancel the unit’s access to some of its cloud storage and AI services 🤖.
Unit 8200 intercepted and collected the calls using its own expansive surveillance capabilities, then processed them in a segregated Azure environment, where data could be stored long-term and analysed with AI-driven techniques 📊.
Although the system initially focused on the West Bank, intelligence sources said the cloud-based storage platform was also used during the Gaza offensive 💥 — facilitating the preparation of deadly airstrikes.
The revelations highlight how Israel relied on the infrastructure of major US technology companies to support its bombardment of Gaza, which has killed more than 65,000 Palestinians 🕊 and created a deep humanitarian and starvation crisis 🍞💔.
#microsoft #israel #palestinians #azure #platform
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