Demonstration follows revelation firm’s servers holding huge collection of intercepted Palestinian phone calls
Activists have staged a protest on the roof of a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands after revelations the Israeli military is storing large volumes of data in the country.
Images posted on social media showed some of the activists blocking access to the large Microsoft facility in the north-west of the country on Sunday, while others scaled the building’s roof and lit flares.
The group, Geef Tegengas (Push Back), said its protest was in response to a recent Guardian investigation that revealed how the Israeli military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, has used Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to store a vast collection of intercepted Palestinian phone calls.
The joint investigation with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call found that Microsoft’s Azure servers in the Netherlands have held large volumes of Israeli military data.
