Microsoft employees respond to reports of IDF using Azure to store 11,500TB of mass surveillance data.

A Microsoft workers group says reporting by The Guardian, Local Call, and +972 Magazine “revealed incriminating details about Microsoft’s indispensable role as the technological backbone of Israel’s mass surveillance of Palestinians all over Palestine” with the IDF’s Unit 8200, despite the company’s denials. > No Azure for Apartheid: > ...Microsoft and Unit 8200 worked closely to build a Microsoft-powered mass surveillance weapon that “collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.”