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dark_mode ◴[] No.45375569[source]
> The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services. The termination will raise questions within Israel about the policy of holding sensitive military data in a third-party cloud hosted overseas.

It's worth noting that even after finding out the "most moral" army is conducting mass surveillance, they're still happy to provide them services.

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1. Capricorn2481 ◴[] No.45377671[source]
> It's worth noting that even after finding out the "most moral" army is conducting mass surveillance, they're still happy to provide them services.

Well, why wouldn't they? It's Microsoft, they're not exactly stewards of privacy.