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Microsoft Launches Urgent Probe Into Azure Cloud’s Role in Palestinian Mass Surveillance
Microsoft has launched an urgent external review after media investigations alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a customized Azure cloud environment to ingest and analyze massive volumes of...
Microsoft Hires Covington & Burling to Probe Azure's Role in Israeli Spy Unit Surveillance
Microsoft has hired the U.S. law firm Covington & Burling to lead an independent investigation into whether its Azure cloud platform was used by Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit...
Microsoft Opens External Investigation into Claims Azure Stored Millions of Intercepted Palestinian Calls
Microsoft has formally commissioned an external investigation after a series of investigative reports alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit 8200, used Microsoft Azure to...
Microsoft Retains Covington for Azure-Palestine Surveillance Investigation
Microsoft has retained the law firm Covington & Burling LLP to lead an urgent external investigation into claims that its Azure cloud platform was used to store and process massive amounts of...
Microsoft Probes Azure’s Role in Israeli Military Mass Phone Surveillance
Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into how Israel’s elite military surveillance unit, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud platform, days after a Guardian investigation revealed the spy...
Arkane Devs Warn Microsoft's Israeli Military Ties Could Shrink Xbox Audience, Threaten Game Jobs
Arkane Studios' unionized developers issued a stark warning to parent company Microsoft on Tuesday: sever all contracts with the Israeli military or face a consumer boycott that could erode the Xbox...
Microsoft Faces Shareholder Revolt Over Azure’s Role in Israeli Surveillance and Gaza Strikes
Microsoft's cloud empire is facing its most profound ethical crisis yet, as explosive investigative reports link Azure to Israeli military intelligence operations in Gaza and the West Bank. The...
Arkane Union Demands Microsoft Cut Israeli Military Cloud Ties, Citing 'Genocide' Complicity
Unionized workers at Arkane Studios, the Microsoft-owned game developer behind titles like Deathloop and Dishonored, issued a blistering public demand this week: parent company Microsoft must...
Microsoft Probes Unit 8200 Azure Surveillance as Executives Doubt Israel Staff Transparency
Microsoft is conducting an internal investigation into how Israel’s elite military intelligence unit used Azure cloud services for large-scale surveillance of Palestinians, amid rising concerns...
Revealed: How Israel’s Unit 8200 Leveraged Microsoft Azure for Palestinian Mass Surveillance
In late 2021, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with the commander of Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit 8200, at the company’s headquarters near Seattle. On the spy chief’s agenda:...
Microsoft Azure Hosted Israeli Military Surveillance of Palestinian Calls as War Deepened
Unit 8200, Israel's elite signals intelligence corps, built and operated a mass surveillance system atop Microsoft Azure that collected and stored recordings of millions of Palestinian phone calls,...
Microsoft Azure Hosts Israel’s Covert Mass Surveillance of Palestinian Calls, Documents Show
Israel’s military intelligence Agency Unit 8200 has secretly migrated its sprawling Palestinian communications dragnet onto Microsoft Azure, leaked documents and investigations reveal, transforming...