Israel It has run out of the technology I used for spy a miles of civilians Palestinians. After weeks of internal pressure, Microsoft has decided to cut the access of the army Israeli to your system of surveillance Massive, according to The Guardian.
In early August, a journalistic investigation of the British media along with +972 News and local Call uncovered that the Unit 8200the agency espionage From elite of the Israeli army, it used Microsoft’s services to illegally listen to the calls of telephone of thousands of people in Gaza y Bankeven to justify extrajudicial executions.
Last week, the technological giant informed the Israeli authorities that the agency had violated the company’s service terms by storing a large amount of data collected with indiscriminate surveillance of thousands of people on their cloud platform Azure. That allowed Israeli intelligence agents to capture up to one million calls per hour to analyze their content, a huge repository of personal data that, according to the investigation, was stored in a center in the Netherlands.
Internal protests
The revelation accentuated the outrage of a small but noisy group of employees and former employees of Microsoft grouped in the collective No Azure for Genocidewhich have actively protested at the headquarters of the American company and in front of the houses of Satya Nadella y Brad Smithits executive director and president.
The investigation also led Microsoft to order an external investigation into its relationship with the 8200 unit that has led to cancel access to some of its services of artificial intelligence and data storage in the cloud. The pressure of the international community could also have played a role in Microsoft’s extraordinary decision. And is that a recent investigation of the United Nations has concluded that Israel is committing a genocide a gaza.
According to the intelligence sources consulted by The Guardian, the elite espionage agency of the Israel Army would have planned to transfer the data extracted from its massive surveillance of the Palestinians to AWSthe cloud platform of Amazon.
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