Microsoft employees respond to reports of IDF using Azure to store 11,500TB of mass surveillance data.
...Microsoft and Unit 8200 worked closely to build a Microsoft-powered mass surveillance weapon that 'collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.'
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