The story so far: In August, a joint investigation by The Guardian , +972 Magazine and Local Call revealed that Israel’s military intelligence unit had built a cloud-based surveillance system using Microsoft’s Azure to store audio recordings of Palestinians’ phone calls. Unit 8200, which is considered Israel’s equivalent to the U.S.’s National Security Agency, was reportedly uploading “audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied territories” into a dedicated Azure environment .

What was Microsoft’s initial response?

Microsoft’s initial response downplayed any wrongdoing. The company said it had “found no evidence” that its tools were used to harm civilians and claimed to be unaware of how the cloud project was being used. But following the expose, the softwa

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