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Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé (www.972mag.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37133543

from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025

Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

The company has reiterated several times that it had no way of knowing how the Israeli army was deploying Microsoft technology due to these privacy policies.

it's wild to see the same excuses that coca cola; general motors; ford; etc. being used in world war 2 being used again for the gaza genocide.

and it'll likely work again just as well.