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Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage
Concerns that tech company’s Israel-based staff may have concealed key details of work follow Guardian investigation
Senior executives are scrambling to assess what data Unit 8200 holds in Azure after a Guardian investigation revealed how the spy agency has used the cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian mobile phone calls. One of the sources familiar with internal conversations said executives had been unable to verify some of the information provided by staff in Israel, and had questioned whether employees may have felt more bound to their country’s military rather than to their employer. Following the revelations about Unit 8200’s reliance on Microsoft, a worker-led group, No Azure for Apartheid, issued a series of demands, including that the company cut off and “make all ties to the Israeli military publicly known”.
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