"A cache of leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian revealed that Unit 8200, the Israeli military's spy agency, had opened talks as far back as 2021 to move vast amounts of top secret intelligence material to the US company's cloud service. The documents showed how Microsoft's storage facility had been used by Unit 8200 to store an expansive archive of everyday Palestinian communications, facilitating targeted airstrikes and other military operations."
"Microsoft's technology has put millions of Palestinians in danger. These are not abstract data-protection failures. He said that the cloud services enabled real-world violence and it was essential that the DPC move quickly and decisively in view of the threat to life posed by the issues at the heart of this complaint. He added: When EU infrastructure is used to enable surveillance and targeting, the Irish data protection commission must step in and it must use its full powers to hold Microsoft to account."
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has asked Ireland's Data Protection Commission to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by the Israeli Defence Forces. Reporting revealed a large trove of Palestinians' phone calls stored on Microsoft's Azure cloud as part of a mass surveillance operation by the Israeli military. The ICCL alleges that data processing facilitated war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide and says Microsoft's cloud services enabled real-world violence and risked lives. Leaked documents show Unit 8200 began talks in 2021 to move top-secret intelligence to Microsoft's cloud and used the storage to archive everyday Palestinian communications to facilitate targeted airstrikes and other military operations. Microsoft ordered an urgent external inquiry to review its relationship
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