New report lays out Israeli military use of Microsoft services

[bannork]

In April and May, Microsoft employees staged public protests over the company's supply of Azure Cloud services to the Israeli military. The BDS movement has called for a boycott of Xbox, Game Pass, and Microsoft-published games to pressure the company to end its relationship with the Israeli military. It wasn't entirely clear, however, what specific role Microsoft's services were playing, and in July, a group of 60 shareholders called on the company to explain itself.

 

The new independent report cites interviews with 11 sources from Microsoft and the Israeli military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, alleging that Microsoft provides a customized, specialized subset of Azure to store data from a dragnet of intercepted telecommunications in Gaza and The West Bank, amounting to millions of text messages and full phone conversations. 

 

The investigation's sources in Unit 8200 said that data stored on these servers has been used to blackmail and jail Palestinians in the West Bank, and even justify killings by Israeli military forces after the fact. One source told The Guardian that "when they need to arrest someone and there isn't a good enough reason to do so, that's where they find the excuse." The report also states that intelligence from these Azure archives has been used in the selection of bombing targets in Gaza.

 

New report lays out Israeli military use of Microsoft services that prompted employee protests and a boycott of Xbox and Game Pass

[Yagoda]

Dont forget the Israeli/Microsoft Supercomputers in the Negev.

 

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