{"id":964861,"date":"2025-09-27T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964861"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:09:21","slug":"microsoft-cuts-cloud-services-to-israeli-military-unit-over-palestinian-mass-surveillance-president-brad-smith-says-found-evidence-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/microsoft-cuts-cloud-services-to-israeli-military-unit-over-palestinian-mass-surveillance-president-brad-smith-says-found-evidence-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft cuts cloud services to Israeli military unit over Palestinian mass surveillance; President Brad Smith says, &#8216;found evidence that\u2026.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has cut off cloud computing and AI services to an Israeli military intelligence unit after an investigation revealed the technology was being used for mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians. The tech giant made the decision following a Guardian investigation that exposed how Israel&#8217;s Unit 8200 stored millions of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft&#8217;s Azure platform.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Smith, Microsoft&#8217;s president and vice chair, announced the termination in an internal memo to employees, stating the company found &#8220;evidence that supports elements of The Guardian&#8217;s reporting.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has cut off cloud computing and AI services to an Israeli military intelligence unit after an investigation revealed the technology was being used for mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians. The tech giant made the decision following a Guardian investigation that exposed how Israel&#8217;s Unit 8200 stored millions of intercepted Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft&#8217;s Azure platform. Brad Smith, Microsoft&#8217;s president and vice chair, announced the termination in an internal memo to employees, stating the company found &#8220;evidence that supports elements of The Guardian&#8217;s reporting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964861","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}