American tech company Microsoft has announced that the company has closed some services to the Israeli Army. In fact, for a long time, Microsoft has been alleging that the company is providing AI and cloud services to Israel to spy millions of fanciles in Gaza and West Bank.
Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith has said that the company has given something to the Israeli Army Services disabled Has decided to do it.
Actually, this case came to light after the joint investigation of the British newspaper The Guardian and Israel’s +972 magazine. In this investigation made in August, it was found that the Israeli Intelligence Unit uses Microsoft services for espionage of the people of Gaza and West Bank.
After joint investigation, in August, the Guardian claimed that the Azure platform of Microsoft is using the Azure platform for the Israeli Army Palestinians.
Although Microsoft had denied this, but after this allegation, it was also said to start internal investigation. The company’s stand is that it does not provide any service to any country in the world for any espionage.
Now Microsoft has said in his blogpost that he has also found in his investigation that some elements of Investigative Reporting done by The Guardian newspaper are correct.
It is worth noting that recently many Microsoft employees said that the Israeli Army is using the platform of Microsoft for espionage in Gaza, which is against the policy of the company. However, those who protested were expelled from the company. Some employees also resigned by saying that the company is helping Israel in espionage.
Microsoft President Brad Smith has written the official blogpost. He has said that the company has told the Izraili Ministry of Defense i.e. Imod that some services and subscriptions being given by Microsoft are being discontinued. These include special cloud storage, AI services and technologies.
He has also said in the blogpost that the company has reviewed its decision with the imod and has shocked that Microsoft’s services cannot be used for the espionage of common citizens.
Microsoft has also praised the investigation of the guardian in its official statement and said that it has helped the company in the internal review. Brad Smith has also said that this review is still going on and more information related to it will be shared in the coming few weeks.
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