Microsoft investigates ties with IDF after investigation reveals mass surveillance program

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.

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