Microsoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt
October 2, 2025
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31:18Now PlayingMicrosoft cancels Israeli spy unit access after tech worker revolt
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as posted by the channelIn a stunning and massive development, tech giant Microsoft has announced that it is terminating parts of the Israeli military’s access to proprietary technology that it was using to conduct mass surveillance and targeting of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. “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,” the Guardian reports. “The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza.” This major development would not have happened without the joint-investigative work of reporters at The Guardian, +972 Magazine, and Local Call exposing Microsoft’s complicity in Unit 8200’s mass-surveillance campaign, but it also would not have happened without disruptive protest campaigns by tech workers within Microsoft. In this panel discussion, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with three fired Microsoft tech workers and members of the “No Azure for Apartheid” campaign about the role workers have played in pressuring Microsoft to end its complicity in Israel’s war crimes.
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