Microsoft disables services for Israeli military amid surveillance allegations
Microsoft on Thursday said that it disabled some services used by an Israeli military unit after preliminary evidence supported media reports of mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls.
A joint investigation by the Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call revealed that Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform enables Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, to store a giant trove of calls daily for extended periods of time.
