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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.

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[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How dare you use our SurveilancePro™ software for surveillance of others?!? That software was intended for us to use for surveillance, not anyone else!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Microsoft isn't really the one building surveillance software in this case

They just sell compute to governments without asking questions (questions are bad for business)

Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

let me guess, “we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”

remind me in 2 months