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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians

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873 points helsinkiandrew | 6 comments | 25 Sep 25 15:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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Cenk ◴[25 Sep 25 15:18 UTC] No.45373771[source]▶
> 11,500 terabytes of Israeli military data – equivalent to approximately 200m hours of audio – was held in Microsoft’s Azure servers in the Netherlands
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1. Aeolun ◴[25 Sep 25 15:55 UTC] No.45374382[source]▶
It bothers me more that it was held in the Netherlands than that it was held on Azure servers.

It’s a fucking disgrace to any government to be facilitating anything like this, and the Netherlands seems extra complicit.

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2. dh2022 ◴[25 Sep 25 15:58 UTC] No.45374438[source]▶
What makes you think Netherlands government knows what data resides within its borders?
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3. bilekas ◴[25 Sep 25 16:01 UTC] No.45374484[source]▶
But why do you think the Netherlands govt was in anyway involved in this? I host some bsremetal in the Netherlands but I don't need to report to the government what I store..
4. Aeolun ◴[25 Sep 25 16:02 UTC] No.45374510[source]▶
I don’t necessarily expect them to know what resides within their borders, I merely expect them to act against atrocities. It is no accident that all this data was located in the Netherlands.
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5. jfengel ◴[25 Sep 25 16:14 UTC] No.45374719{3}[source]▶
Would it have been different elsewhere in Europe?
6. Antibabelic ◴[26 Sep 25 08:27 UTC] No.45384142{3}[source]▶
It was located in the Netherlands because the Netherlands has excellent privacy and data protection laws. It's the same reason so much cybercrime is traced back to Dutch servers.