Following revelations of widespread monitoring of Palestinian phone calls by an Israeli military unit, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has taken action to disable certain services.Israeli Military Access Limited Amid Mass Surveillance InvestigationMicrosoft said on Thursday that it has suspended specific services used by an Israeli military unit, following a media investigation that uncovered the unit's reported mass surveillance of Palestinian phone calls, reported Reuters.Track MSFT stock hereThe dec ...

Microsoft has blocked an Israeli military unit from accessing some services after preliminary evidence supported a media investigation that the software was used for surveillance of millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls.The unit used Microsoft's Azure software to store "millions" of recordings of mobile phone calls made by Palestinians living in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian and other outlets published in August. The investigation prompted ...

Microsoft on Thursday said it disabled a set of cloud and AI services used by a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense after an internal review found preliminary evidence supporting media reports of a surveillance system in Gaza and the West Bank.Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, said the company opened the review after an article by the Guardian alleged activity by a unit of the Israel Defense Forces.A joint investigation published in early August by the Guardian, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 ...

Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its products and that it does "not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.†...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has disabled some services it provides to the Israel Ministry of Defense over allegations the ministry had used Azure to conduct mass surveillance of civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. "As we publicly announced on August 15, we ...