{"id":19653,"date":"2025-08-06T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/a-million-calls-an-hour-israel-relying-on-microsoft-cloud-for-expansive-surveillance-of-palestinians\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T10:37:47","slug":"a-million-calls-an-hour-israel-relying-on-microsoft-cloud-for-expansive-surveillance-of-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/a-million-calls-an-hour-israel-relying-on-microsoft-cloud-for-expansive-surveillance-of-palestinians\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A million calls an hour\u2019: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Revealed:<\/strong> The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians\u2019 phone calls on Microsoft\u2019s servers in Europe<\/p>\n<p>One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft\u2019s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel\u2019s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief\u2019s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company\u2019s cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting at Microsoft\u2019s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella\u2019s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised<strong> <\/strong>and segregated area within Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud platform.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/06\/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a18c4f0497a59bca05de5604e2cb7ba7aa1ee8c5\/0_0_2084_1667\/master\/2084.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1332b7c85363868cec4aac6e0153f5cb\" title=\"\u2018A million calls an hour\u2019: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians\" \/>Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians\u2019 phone calls on Microsoft\u2019s servers in Europe<br \/>\nOne afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft\u2019s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel\u2019s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief\u2019s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company\u2019s cloud.<br \/>\nMeeting at Microsoft\u2019s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella\u2019s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud platform. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians\u2019 phone calls on Microsoft\u2019s servers in Europe One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft\u2019s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel\u2019s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief\u2019s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/a-million-calls-an-hour-israel-relying-on-microsoft-cloud-for-expansive-surveillance-of-palestinians\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A million calls an hour\u2019: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}