Omer Kabir
Microsoft has blocked Israel’s Unit 8200 from accessing some of its cloud services, following revelations by The Guardian that the intelligence unit had used Microsoft’s platforms for surveillance operations. According to the investigation, the IDF’s Unit 8200 stored recordings of millions of calls made by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, and used the company’s computing tools to analyze the data.
“We do not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians. We have applied this principle in every country around the world, and we have insisted on it repeatedly for more than two decades,” Microsoft’s president and vice chair, Brad Smith, said in a statement on Thursday. The announcement comes after months of employee protests within the company over its ties to Israel, including a demonstration in which staff occupied Smith’s office.
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