Microsoft Cuts Cloud Services to Israel’s Unit 8200 Following Surveillance Report

by Emmitt Barry, with reporting from Worthy News Jerusalem Bureau Staff(Worthy News) – Microsoft announced Thursday that it has stopped providing certain cloud and AI services to a division of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, after an internal review confirmed elements of a report alleging that the IDF’s elite Unit 8200 used its Azure platform to store and analyze millions of Palestinian phone calls.The decision followed an August investigation by The Guardian, based on material from