How Israel watched the Palestinians: “One million calls an hour”

The Guardian reveals how the Israeli army began an ambitious plan to store a huge volume of telephone calls to servers in Europe. One afternoon, at the end of 2021, Microsoft CEO, Satia Nandela, met with the Commander of the Israeli Secret Service, the 8200 Unit. On the agenda of the spy leader: the transfer of huge quantities of highly secret information. During a meeting at Microsoft offices near Seattle, in a former poultry unit converted into a campus, Yosi Sariel secured Nandela’s support for a plan that would give the 8200 access to a customized and secluded area of the Azure platform. Equipped with Azure’s almost unlimited capacity, Unit 8200 began building a new powerful mass surveillance tool: a sweeping and interventionist system that collects and stores millions of telephone calls that make Palestinians every day in Gaza and West. This is revealed for […]
Source: News Beast

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