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Israel’s Unit 8200 used Microsoft cloud to store ‘a million calls an hour’ of Palestinian phone conversations

  • In Gaza, intelligence from phone calls in Azure was reportedly used by Unit 8200 to identify bombing targets
  • The Israeli military used information stored in Azure to blackmail individuals, detain them or justify killings afterward
  • Sources described the system as indiscriminate and intrusive, labeling it as a tool that turned an entire population into an ‘enemy’
By Arab News ·

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