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Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project * Middle East crisis – live updates Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank, the Guardian can reveal. Microsoft told Israeli officials late last week that Unit 8200, the military’s elite spy agency, had violated the company’s terms of service by storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform, sources familiar with the situation said. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Nobel prize winner says US institutions have collapsed much quicker than expected under the Trump administration

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

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