Microsoft has launched an “urgent” external inquiry into allegations Israel’s military surveillance agency has used the company’s technology to facilitate the mass surveillance of Palestinians.
The company said on Friday the formal review was in response to a Guardian investigation that revealed how the Unit 8200 spy agency has relied on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a vast collection of everyday Palestinian mobile phone calls.
The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call found Unit 8200 made use of a customised and segregated area within Azure to store recordings of millions of calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank.
The company who has fired employees who have spoken out about their complicity in the genocide is going to do an internal investigation?
Yeah, I’m sure this will be fruitful. 🙄
Israel was straight up bragging about the surveillance so…
Full stop, Microsoft actively participated in genocide and they will do it again. Everything else is just propaganda.
Big tech scandal, political scandal, policing scandal… 95% of them end the same way.
“We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.”
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