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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 1 month 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.

[–] Mgineer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah sure they terminated this contract to be hired by a contractor storing the same data

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I haven’t read the article, but be warned that 972 is an Israeli liberal Zionist rag.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

And Microsoft is still doing plenty of business with the Israelis

[–] pete_link@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've been reading a lot of articles from 972, and I don't see evidence of that. Do they explicitly call for the destruction of the Zionist state? No, but that doesn't make 972 a liberal Zionist rag. (In fact, their latest issue explicitly takes on liberal Israelis on the Gaza genocide.)

If you have some examples where they took bad positions on something concrete, please send them to me. I could be wrong.

[–] Safipok@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More info:

There is a lot in the two article linked above with sources that go even deeper. Nonetheless, data stored on azure was used to target and kill Palestinians while forcing NGO's to force over their data.