LONDON: Tech giant Microsoft is investigating how an elite Israeli military intelligence unit is using its Azure cloud service after an investigation revealed extensive ties between the two entities.
There are mounting concerns that Israeli staffers working at Microsoft’s facility in the country may have concealed major details from upper management about the nature of the sensitive military collaboration, The Guardian reported on Saturday.
Unit 8200, Israel’s military surveillance agency, is broadly comparable to the National Security Agency in the US.
Through its former head, who resigned in the wake of the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, the unit carried out extensive efforts to migrate data to Microsoft’s Azure cloud storage service.
It was part of a broader plan to execute mass surveillance of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, as revealed by a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call.
