LONDON: Activists in the Netherlands have taken over the roof of a Microsoft data center after it was revealed that the tech giant stores data for the Israeli military in the country.
The Geef Tegengas (Push Back) group said the Microsoft Azure platform, which uses servers in the Netherlands, was being used to store intercepted phone data from Palestinians by Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200.
It came after a joint investigation by The Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language media platform Local Call.
The investigation found 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data, or around 200 million hours of audio, on the Netherlands’ Azure servers.
Geef Tegengas members lit flairs on the roof of the data center, with others blocking access to the site near Middenmeer in the northwest of the country.
