How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians – podcast

Yossi Sariel was responsible for one of the branches of the Israel's secret service agency. When he took over the unit 8200, he arrived with ambitious plans – to use technology to change the way intelligence was collected and analyzed.

The guardian Harry Davies told Noshen iqbal About an investigation that he carried out with Yuval Abraham, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 magazine and the Hebrew -speaking outlet Call. It found that Sariel had a plan to transfer large quantities of the data of unit 8200, including the strictly secret information, to the Cloud platform from Microsoft, which is called Azure. If you have so much data storage, Sariel would fulfill his plans to carry out mass surveillance against Palestinians in the West Bank and in the Gaza.

Microsoft said it didn't know what it was saving, and there is no evidence that combines its technologies with the aim or damage to civilians. But what exactly did Microsoft Agree to … and how could this data be used to target the Palestinians?