Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians</strong></p><p><em>Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>’s servers in Europe</em> </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Guardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guardian</span></a><br>Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham<br>Wed 6 Aug 2025 07.00 EDT </p><blockquote><blockquote><p>According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> and the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a>.</p><p>Thanks to the control it exerts over <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> telecommunications infrastructure, <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new system allows intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/aug</span><span class="invisible">/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud?CMP=share_btn_url</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NoTechForApartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoTechForApartheid</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/EmbargoBlockadeIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmbargoBlockadeIsrael</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>