‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
The article reveals that the Israeli military has undertaken an ambitious project to store a vast trove of Palestinians' phone calls on Microsoft's servers in Europe. The military's surveillance agency, Unit 8200, met with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to discuss moving top-secret intelligence data into the company's Azure cloud platform. The spymaster, Yossi Sariel, secured Nadella's support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customized and segregated area within Microsoft's cloud. This move allows the Israeli military to process and analyze the massive amount of intercepted phone calls, which can reach up to a million per hour, using Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.
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