Microsoft prohibits Israel’s use of some services after reviewing the collective monitoring of the Palestinians

Microsoft says she has Stop saving Some of its cloud services and AI to the Israeli Ministry of Defense following a report issued by the British Guardian newspaper, which claimed that Israel used services to conduct mass monitoring of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank of the Israeli.

the The guardian reportWhich was published in August in conjunction with Israeli outlets +972 local magazines and calls, the Israel Military Military Monitor – called unit 8200 – used MicrosoftAzure cloud platform to store the records of millions of mobile calls by Palestinians.

These calls can be played by intelligence officers, and the Guardian cited three sources within the unit 8200 who said that the database was used for help Gaza.

One of the sources told Al -Wasi newspaper that while planning an air strike on an individual in the densely populated Gaza area, officers will use the regime to check the calls of other people in the vicinity directly.

Other sources told Al -Wasi newspaper that the use of data initially focuses on West BankThat controls Israel military.

One of the sources told the British newspaper: “When they need to arrest someone and there is no good enough reason to do so, this is where they find an excuse.”

The Guardian newspaper reported that the leaked microsoft files indicate that a large percentage of sensitive data may be stored in Microsoft Data Data centers in Ireland and the Netherlands.

After publishing its report, several newspaper sources told that the usual call warehouse – up to 8,000 TB of data – was held at the Microsoft Data Data Center in the Netherlands, but within days of its publication in early August, the data seemed to have left the country.

“We have found evidence that supports the elements of the guardian reports. This guide includes information related to IMOD consumption of AZURE storage in the Netherlands and the use of artificial intelligence services,” Microsoft said in a statement on Thursday.

Microsoft said it had informed the Israeli Ministry of Defense that it would stop and disable its use of some specific subscriptions and services.

“We reviewed this decision with IMOD and the steps we make to ensure compliance with our service conditions, I focused on ensuring that our services for collective monitoring of civilians are not used,” Microsoft said.

Intelligence sources told the Guardian newspaper that unit 8200 planned to transfer data from Microsoft servers to Amazon Web Services Cloud. The Israeli Defense Forces nor Amazon responded to the guardian’s request to comment.

CBS News asked both IDF and Amazon to comment on a possible data transfer report to Amazon servers but did not receive a response according to the time of publication.

Microsoft said her current review was still continuing.

He follows Initial review Through the American technology giant, which led to a previous trustee report on how to use the Israeli Defense Army for Microsoft Azure and AI services during its attack in Gaza, which the company said it found “there is no evidence that Microsoft Azure and AI Technologies, or any of our other programs, have been accustomed to damaging people or that IMOD did not agree with our service conditions of our service from AI. “