Surveillance
The latest Surveillance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
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...
Microsoft Azure Hosts 11,500 TB of Israeli Military's Palestinian Surveillance Data, Investigation Finds
A colossal trove of raw intelligence—11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls and communications—has been quietly stored and processed on Microsoft Azure cloud servers under a...
Engineer Storms Microsoft 50th Bash to Protest Azure's Role in Palestinian Mass Surveillance
A Microsoft software engineer disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary Copilot event in April 2025, storming the stage to denounce what she called the tech giant’s complicity in mass surveillance...
Leaked Documents Expose Microsoft Azure's Role in Storing 200 Million Hours of Palestinian Call Data for Israeli Military Targeting
Israel’s elite signals intelligence agency, Unit 8200, has used Microsoft Azure to warehouse more than 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls—equivalent to 200 million hours of...
Leaked Documents Claim Microsoft Azure Hosts Israeli Mass Surveillance Targeting Palestinians
Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure has been implicated in one of the most sweeping mass surveillance operations in modern history, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian and +972 Magazine...
13 Petabytes of Israeli Surveillance Data on Palestinians Stored by Microsoft Azure, UN Report Says
More than 13 petabytes of Israeli military surveillance data on Palestinians—including biometric records, intercepted communications, and AI-generated targeting lists—sits on Microsoft Azure...
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...
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 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...