Ireland has been asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by the Israeli Defense Forces.

According to The Guardian, the complaint was made by the human rights group the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) to the Data Protection Commission, which has legal responsibility in Europe for overseeing all data processing in the European Union. Microsoft’s headquarters in Europe is in Ireland.

According to ICCL, the processing of the personal data “facilitated war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by Israeli military".

Joe O’Brien, the executive director of ICCL, said: “Microsoft’s technology has put millions of Palestinians in danger. These are not abstract data-protection failures."

The Guardian quoted Brien as saying that the cloud services “enab

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