Palestinian Surveillance
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Microsoft Engages Covington & Burling for External Review of Azure’s Role in Alleged Palestinian Surveillance
Microsoft has retained the law firm Covington & Burling and an independent technical consultancy to expand an external review into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit...
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...
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...
Microsoft Azure Powers Israel’s Mass Surveillance of Palestinians, Leaked Documents Reveal
In late 2021, a private meeting between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and then-commander of Israel’s Unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, set in motion a partnership that would transform the elite signals...
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 Stored 200 Million Hours of Palestinian Calls for Israel's Unit 8200
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform stored approximately 11,500 terabytes of data for Israel’s secretive Unit 8200—the equivalent of 200 million hours of phone calls—mostly from Palestinians in...
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...
Exposed: How Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Became the Backbone of Israel’s AI-Powered Surveillance State
Israel’s shadowy signals intelligence unit, Unit 8200, has stored more than 11,500 terabytes—equivalent to 200 million hours—of intercepted Palestinian phone calls and private communications on...
Microsoft and Israel’s Unit 8200: Unveiling the Controversial Azure-Powered Surveillance Partnership
A tectonic shift has emerged at the nexus of global technology, military intelligence, and human rights: Microsoft, one of the world’s most powerful technology corporations, stands at the center of...
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...