Microsoft cuts cloud services to Israeli military after investigation

Microsoft He said on Thursday that he had stopped providing certain services to a part of the Israeli Defense Ministry. The company did not say which special services he had stopped providing.

The decision is a software company August Report The Guardian says that the Israeli Defense Forces Unit 8200 has built a system to watch Palestinians’ phone calls.

“While our review was continuing, we found evidence that supports the elements of Guardian’s report,” Microsoft’s President and Vice President Brad Smith said. E -POSTA FOR EMPLOYEES. “This evidence contains information about the IMOD consumption of Azure storage capacity in the Netherlands and the use of AI services.”

Microsoft’s decision to stop providing these services follows the pressure of employees who protested the use of the company’s software as part of Israel’s Gaza occupation. For the last few weeks, Microsoft has expelled five employees who participated in protests at the company headquarters in Redmond.

Movement comes a week after the United Nations Commission said Israel has made genocide against the Palestinians with the occupation of Gaza.

Microsoft told Israel defense officials that he decided to disable cloud -based storage, the artificial intelligence subscriptions used by the agency. He said that Microsoft did not look at customer data for the type of review and thanked the British newspaper for their reports about development.

“As employees, as employees, our customers have a common interest in confidentiality protection, considering the value of our customers to trust our services with Rock Solid Trust.”

Thursday Guardian He said that the anonymous intelligence resources said that 8200 unit plans to carry telephone conversations. Amazon Web Services, Market Leader Public Cloud. AWS did not comment immediately.

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