Israel using Microsoft cloud for mass surveillance of Palestinians: 'A million calls an hour'

Israel using Microsoft cloud for mass surveillance of Palestinians: 'A million calls an hour'

Israel's military intelligence unit has been relying on Microsoft to conduct mass surveillance of phone calls from Palestine, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and the Local Call. The operation, enabled by a customized and segregated environment on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, is reportedly capable of processing up to 1 million phone calls an hour. The system launched in 2022 following a meeting the year prio…