The director of the Israeli subsidiary of MicrosoftAlon Haimovich, will resign after it was revealed that the agency espionage of the Hebrew State used the infrastructure of cloud from the computer giant for surveillance mass of millions of people in Gaza y West Bank.
An investigation of The Guardian, +972 Magazine y Local Call discovered last year that Unit 8200the army’s elite spy corps Israelused the platform Azure to store telephone call records of Palestinian civilians on a large scale. This indiscriminate system served to listen to the intimate conversations of ordinary citizens on a daily basis.
After the scandal broke, Microsoft announced an internal investigation to examine its business relations with the Israeli military, which, according to investigators from the HIMhas perpetrated a genocide in the Gaza Strip which has killed more than 75,000 people. The investigation has recently concluded, but for now its conclusions have not been made public.
The Israeli business newspaper Globes reported on Monday that Haimovich and other executives left their positions at Microsoft after an internal controversy at the subsidiary related to a violation of its ethical codes. Azure’s terms of service prohibit the use of its technology to facilitate mass surveillance. That is why, at the end of last year, the company blocked Unit 8200’s access to its security services. cloud e artificial intelligence.
According to The GuardianHaimovich’s role was crucial in connecting Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary with the army’s notorious military spy agency. He did so after, in 2011, the unit commander met with Satya NadellaCEO of the technology giant.
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