{"id":964574,"date":"2025-09-26T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964574"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:34:02","slug":"microsoft-disables-services-to-israel-defense-unit-over-reports-of-mass-surveillance-in-gaza-all-you-need-to-know-about-tech-giants-big-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/26\/microsoft-disables-services-to-israel-defense-unit-over-reports-of-mass-surveillance-in-gaza-all-you-need-to-know-about-tech-giants-big-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft disables services to Israel defense unit over reports of mass surveillance in Gaza; all you need to know about tech giant\u2019s big move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a big move, Microsoft on Thursday (September 26, 2025) said that it has disabled some cloud and AI services used by a unit within the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD). The decision comes after an internal review by the global tech giant found preliminary evidence backing media reports of a surveillance system in Gaza and the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The company opened the review after an article by the Guardian alleged activity by a unit of the Israel Defense Forces, Brad Smith, Microsoft&#8217;s president, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a big move, Microsoft on Thursday (September 26, 2025) said that it has disabled some cloud and AI services used by a unit within the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD). The decision comes after an internal review by the global tech giant found preliminary evidence backing media reports of a surveillance system in Gaza and the West Bank. The company opened the review after an article by the Guardian alleged activity by a unit of the Israel Defense Forces, Brad Smith, Microsoft&#8217;s president, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}