Activists in Netherlands protest on roof of Microsoft site storing Israeli military data | Netherlands
The activists organized a protest on the roof of a Microsoft data center in the Netherlands after the revelation of the Israeli army stored a large amount of data in the country.
Images Published on social media While some activists prevented access to the Great Microsoft facility in the north -west of the country on Sunday, others scaled the roof of the building.
Greef Tegengas (Back Pushing) Group, the protest, the Israeli military surveillance agency unit 8200, Microsoft’un Azure Cloud platform, captured a large collection of the captured Palestinian phone calls, he said.
Joint investigation with Israel-Palestine publication +972 magazine and Hebrew starting point Local call Microsoft found that Azure servers in the Netherlands have large amounts of Israeli military data.
Line Microsoft documents show that 11,500 Tarabayt Israeli military data equivalent to the 200m hour audio file until July this year shows that Azure’s servers in the Netherlands.
The activists said in a statement, “Datacentre’s employees, all the Israeli intelligence from the servers to leave their work until the removal,” he said.
Microsoft, a campus of 14 hectares near Middenmeer in the North Dutch province, is part of a global data center network used to store the data of Azure customers.
Explanations about the Israeli army’s confidence in Dutch -based data centers launched questions in an emergency parliament debate on the Gaza War in the Dutch Parliament this week.
During the discussion, Christine Teunissen, a deputy of the leftist party for animals, asked the government how to prevent the “use of the data kept in the country” to “use to do genocide”.
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said that he did not know exactly which information is available in response, but he would “demand more investigations ::“ If there are serious indicators of serious crimes in this information, legal proceedings can be initiated and this depends on public prosecution service. ”
Responding to the investigation this week, Microsoft said that there was no “knowledge” about the data type stored by 8200 units in Azure. “During this engagement [with Unit 8200] Microsoft was aware of Microsoft’s services using the services of civilians or the collection of mobile phone conversations. ”
On Saturday, Guardian reported that Senior Microsoft executives are trying to evaluate which data unit in Azure, 8200, concerns that the company’s leadership could hide important details about the work of the personnel in Israel with the unit.
The Israeli army spokesman said that his previous studies with Microsoft were based on “legally controlled agreements ve and that the army operates in accordance with international law in order to resist terrorism and to ensure the security of the state and its citizens”.
