Microsoft says he has stopped providing some of his cloud and AI services to the Israeli Department of Defense following a report in the British newspaper Guardian, who alleged that Israel used the services to lead the Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank occupied by Israeli.
The Guardian report, published in August jointly with the Israeli magazine and the local magazine and the local call, said that the Israeli military surveillance agency – called Unit 8200 – used Microsoft’s Cloud Azure platform to store records of millions of mobile phone calls made by the Palestinians.
These calls could be given by intelligence officers, and the Guardian cited three sources in unit 8200 which said that the database had been used to help shape military operations in Gaza and West Bank, and to prepare deadly air strikes by helping research and identifying the bombard objectives Gaza.
One source told the Guardian that when planning an air strike on an individual in an area densely populated by Gaza, the officers would use the system to examine calls made by other people in the immediate vicinity.
Other sources told the Guardian that the use of data was initially focused on the West Bankwhich is the military controls of Israel.
“When they need to stop someone and there is not a reason good enough to do it, that’s where they find the excuse,” a source told the British newspaper.
The Guardian reported that Microsoft Disculted files suggested that a large part of the sensitive data was potentially stored in Microsoft data centers in Ireland and the Netherlands.
After the publication of its report, several sources told the newspaper that the intercepted call benchmark – up to 8,000 data teraoctes – had been held in a Microsoft data center in the Netherlands, but in the days which followed its report in early August, the data seemed to have been emotional of the country.
“We found evidence that supports the elements of the Guardian reports. These evidence includes information relating to IMOD consumption of Azure storage capacity in the Netherlands and the use of AI services,” Microsoft said in a statement on Thursday, without explaining what the evidence showed.
Microsoft said he had informed the Israeli Defense Ministry that he interrupted and disabled his use of certain specific subscriptions and services.
“We have examined this decision with IMOD and the measures we take to ensure compliance with our service conditions, focused on guaranteeing that our services are not used for mass monitoring of civilians,” said Microsoft.
Information sources have told the Guardian that unit 8200 planned to transfer data from Microsoft servers to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. Neither the Israeli or Amazon defense forces responded to the request for Guardian comments.
CBS News asked the FDI and Amazon to comment on the report of a possible transfer of data to Amazon servers but did not receive a response at the time of publication.
Microsoft said his current exam was still underway.
It follows a first examination of the American technology giant, triggered by a previous Guardian report on how the use by FDI of the Azure and AI services of Microsoft increased during its Gaza technologies, in which the company declared that it had found “any evidence that Microsoft people were complicated with our terms or our terms or terms of service or driving.”
