{"id":19767,"date":"2025-08-15T07:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/how-israel-used-microsoft-technology-to-spy-on-palestinians-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T05:37:17","slug":"how-israel-used-microsoft-technology-to-spy-on-palestinians-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/how-israel-used-microsoft-technology-to-spy-on-palestinians-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Harry Davies<\/strong> on how Microsoft\u2019s cloud was used to facilitate mass surveillance of Palestinians<\/p>\n<p>Yossi Sariel was in charge of one of the branches of Israel\u2019s intelligence agency. When he took over Unit 8200 he arrived with ambitious plans \u2013 to use tech to change the way intelligence was gathered and analysed.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian\u2019s <strong>Harry Davies<\/strong> tells <strong>Nosheen Iqbal<\/strong> about an investigation he carried out with Yuval Abraham, the Israeli-Palestinian publication <a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/microsoft-8200-intelligence-surveillance-cloud-azure\/\">+972 magazine<\/a> and the Hebrew-language outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mekomit.co.il\/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%A9%D7%A2%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%92%D7%A8-%D7%A9%D7%9C-8200-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%9E%D7%99\/\">Local Call<\/a>. It found Sariel had a plan to transfer large amounts of Unit 8200\u2019s data, including top-secret information, into Microsoft\u2019s cloud platform, which is called Azure. Having this much data storage would allow Sariel to fulfil his plans to carry out mass surveillance on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2025\/aug\/14\/how-israel-used-microsoft-technology-to-spy-on-palestinians-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/db1416cde65d2a0b1d0d21744f5047812a997de5\/403_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=426069ecbca9da56c443765b5da5db26\" title=\"How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians \u2013 podcast\" \/>Harry Davies on how Microsoft\u2019s cloud was used to facilitate mass surveillance of Palestinians<br \/>\nYossi Sariel was in charge of one of the branches of Israel\u2019s intelligence agency. When he took over Unit 8200 he arrived with ambitious plans \u2013 to use tech to change the way intelligence was gathered and analysed.<br \/>\nThe Guardian\u2019s Harry Davies tells Nosheen Iqbal about an investigation he carried out with Yuval Abraham, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call. It found Sariel had a plan to transfer large amounts of Unit 8200\u2019s data, including top-secret information, into Microsoft\u2019s cloud platform, which is called Azure. Having this much data storage would allow Sariel to fulfil his plans to carry out mass surveillance on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Davies on how Microsoft\u2019s cloud was used to facilitate mass surveillance of Palestinians Yossi Sariel was in charge of one of the branches of Israel\u2019s intelligence agency. When he took over Unit 8200 he arrived with ambitious plans \u2013 to use tech to change the way intelligence was gathered and analysed. The Guardian\u2019s Harry &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/how-israel-used-microsoft-technology-to-spy-on-palestinians-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19768,"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\/19767"}],"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=19767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}