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Activists Protest Microsoft Over Controversial Israeli Military Data

8/11/2025

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Activists from Geef Tegengas staged a bold protest atop a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands, decrying the storage of Israeli military data on Azure servers. A shocking Guardian investigation uncovered 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian calls, igniting fierce debate among Dutch MPs about data usage during the ongoing Gaza conflict and demanding deeper scrutiny.

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Activists from Geef Tegengas staged a bold protest atop a Microsoft datacentre in the Netherlands, decrying the storage of Israeli military data on Azure servers. A shocking Guardian investigation uncovered 11,500 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian calls, igniting fierce debate among Dutch MPs about data usage during the ongoing Gaza conflict and demanding deeper scrutiny.