Ireland: Watchdog accused of stalling probe into Microsoft hosting Israeli military app

Irish lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Ireland's data regulator over concerns that Microsoft's data centre campus outside Dublin hosts an app used by Israel to control the movements of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Last year, rights groups EKO and the Irish Centre for Civil Liberties (ICCL) filed a complaint with Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), raising concerns that Microsoft’s Grange Castle data centre was hosting elements of the Almunasseq app, used by the Israeli army to monitor Palestinians.

The DPC has still not given a definitive response to the rights groups over the status of the complaint.