"According to the report, the Xbox company told Israeli officials that the military's spy agency, Unit 8200, violated its terms of service by "storing the vast trove of surveillance data in its Azure cloud platform." This follows from August on how Azure was being used to store Palestine communications, as Israel had been surveilling civilian phone calls in Gaza and the West Bank."
"This included calls to cancel subscriptions to Xbox Game Pass, as well as boycotting games like have been calling for a boycott of Microsoft due to its relationship with the Israeli government, as it continues its ongoing attacks on the people of Palestine. Microsoft was added to the BDS Movement's boycott list Candy Crush, Minecraft, and Call of Duty, which are all owned by Microsoft's various studios. We've reached out to the BDS Movement for comment and will update the story if we hear back."
Microsoft conducted an external investigation into its relationship with Unit 8200 and canceled the unit's access to cloud storage and AI services after finding evidence that the unit stored surveillance data in Azure. Unit 8200 had been retaining communications from Palestinian phone calls in Gaza and the West Bank on the Azure platform. Employee and activist pressure included calls to cancel Xbox Game Pass subscriptions and broader boycotts. Microsoft was placed on the BDS Movement's boycott list, including titles such as Candy Crush, Minecraft, and Call of Duty. Microsoft leadership communicated an ongoing review and acknowledged supporting evidence.
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