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Israel is reportedly storing millions of Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft servers


Israel has reportedly been surveilling and storing millions of phone calls in Palestine. It's allegedly been storing them on Microsoft's Azure servers.

He reportedly gave the country a customized and segregated area within the Azure platform to store millions of phone calls made each day without knowledge or consent from Palestinians. CEO Nadella was interrupted by an employee at a keynote speech in May, with the worker pleading for the executive to "show how Israeli war crimes are powered by Azure." Earlier this year, the company commissioned an external review that"found no evidence to date” that Azure or its AI products were "used to target or harm people" in the territory.

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