Data Collection
The latest Data Collection coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows Telemetry Control: How to Limit Data Collection Without Breaking System Updates
Microsoft's Windows operating system has evolved into a complex ecosystem of background services, scheduled tasks, and account-linked features that collectively generate a continuous stream of...
Microsoft Copilot Leads in AI Privacy with Minimal Data Collection
Microsoft Copilot has emerged as the most privacy-conscious AI chatbot currently available, implementing data collection practices that are significantly less intrusive than competing services....
How to Reclaim Your Privacy: Disabling Windows 11's Telemetry, Ad ID, and App Permissions
Microsoft ships Windows 11 with multiple data-collection mechanisms enabled by default, feeding everything from crash reports to behavioral patterns back to its servers. But a closer look at the...
Microsoft Azure Secretly Powers Israeli Military's Million-Call-an-Hour Surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform has been secretly harnessed by Israel’s military intelligence Unit 8200 to intercept, store, and analyze millions of Palestinian phone calls per hour, a joint...
Azure Cloud at Core of Israeli Military’s Million-Call/Hour Palestinian Surveillance Program
The Israeli military’s elite intelligence unit has migrated vast troves of intercepted Palestinian communications to Microsoft’s Azure cloud, creating a surveillance apparatus capable of...
Nearly 2 Million Hours of Palestinian Calls Stored on Microsoft’s Irish Servers for Israeli Intelligence
Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure in Ireland stored nearly 2 million hours of intercepted Palestinian phone calls for Israel’s elite military intelligence unit, an investigation by The...
Satya Nadella’s 2021 Meeting with Unit 8200 Head Enabled Azure-Powered Mass Surveillance in Gaza, Investigation Shows
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella personally met with the head of Israel’s elite cyber-intelligence unit in 2021 to greenlight a cloud-powered mass surveillance system that now captures and stores...
Microsoft Azure Stores 200 Million Hours of Intercepted Palestinian Calls, Investigation Finds
Israel’s elite military intelligence unit has been using Microsoft Azure to build and operate a colossal surveillance system that hoovers up Palestinian phone calls on an industrial scale, a joint...
Microsoft's Azure Cloud Powers Israel's Unit 8200 Mass Surveillance of Palestinians
Microsoft Azure has been secretly providing the computational muscle behind Israel's military intelligence unit's massive surveillance operation, which intercepts and stores millions of Palestinian...
Microsoft Azure Powers Israeli Mass Surveillance of Palestinians, Investigation Reveals
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform has been secretly harnessed as the technological backbone for one of the most expansive surveillance programs in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an...
Controversy Surrounds Israel’s Unit 8200 Use of Microsoft Azure for Surveillance
A storm of controversy has erupted following the recent exposure of Israel’s Unit 8200 leveraging Microsoft Azure cloud technology to conduct large-scale surveillance on Palestinian communications....
Microsoft Azure’s Role in Israel’s Mass Surveillance of Palestinians: Ethics, Impact, and Global Implications
A storm has erupted in the global technology and human rights communities as new revelations expose the extent to which Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure is interwoven into Israel’s mass...