cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37133543
from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Sept 28, 2025Microsoft has terminated the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store vast troves of intelligence on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza, Yuval Abraham reported. The decision followed an exposé last month by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the Guardian revealing how Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber warfare agency, was housing recordings of millions of intercepted phone calls by Palestinians on Microsoft’s cloud platform, Azure.
Also:
Collaborate or leave: Israel’s cruel ultimatum to #humanitarian groups in Gaza
‘They intended to kill us’: #MasaferYatta reels from bloody settler assaults
Israel decries #Hollywood boycott — while silencing its own critical filmmakers
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The company has reiterated several times that it had no way of knowing how the Israeli army was deploying Microsoft technology due to these privacy policies.
it’s wild to see the same excuses that coca cola; general motors; ford; etc. being used in world war 2 being used again for the gaza genocide.
and it’ll likely work again just as well.
Yeah sure they terminated this contract to be hired by a contractor storing the same data
I haven’t read the article, but be warned that 972 is an Israeli liberal Zionist rag.
And Microsoft is still doing plenty of business with the Israelis
More info:
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/26/why-has-microsoft-cut-israel-off-from-some-of-its-services
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/microsoft-block-israel-military-unit-from-using-its-technology/
There is a lot in the two article linked above with sources that go even deeper. Nonetheless, data stored on azure was used to target and kill Palestinians while forcing NGO’s to force over their data.
