Microsoft prohibits Israel’s use of its data centers for the collective monitoring of the Palestinians

Microsoft has completed access to its data centers of a unit of the Israeli army that helped operate a huge monitoring operation against Palestinian civilians, According to a foot report Guardian. The company says the espionage agency in the country has violated the conditions of service.

This monitoring system has been collected Every day in Gaza and the West Bank. The massive data collection was stored through the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform, but the company informed the espionage agency in Israel that this practice will not be acceptable.

The Vice President of Microsoft and President, Brad Smith, alerted the employees of this step in an email message, wrote that the company “stopped and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israeli Ministry of Defense.” He went on to suggest that this included the access to the access to cloud storage and some artificial intelligence services.

“We do not provide technology to facilitate the collective monitoring of civilians.” “We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have repeatedly insisted on it for more than two decades.”

Microsoft reached this decision after an external investigation to review the use of the spy agency for its Azure Cloud platform. It also comes amid pressure from Both employees and Investors In order for the company to examine its relationship with Israel in terms of its connection with the military attack in Gaza.

According to this, this began again in 2021, when it was claimed that the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella was fine with a personally storage effort after meeting with a leader of the elite military surveillance agent in Israel, unit 8200.

While the conflict was present between Israel and Palestinian groups for decades, these platforms were built two years ago two years before the recent escalation in violence, starting from October 7, 2023. A talisman when building the project to register “one million calls per hour.”

The leaked Microsoft files suggested that the lion’s share of these data was stored in the AZURE facilities in the Netherlands, but Israel claimed it conveyed it after Microsoft began the initial investigation. Guardian I mentioned that unit 8200 planned to transfer data to the Amazon Web Services Cloud platform. We have called Amazon to ask if he had accepted this giant number of personal data.