US EditionIsrael demanded Google and Amazon use secret code to evade legal orders: The Guardian
Amazon and Google send coded payments to Israel based on foreign data request origins to maintain strategic control over Israeli public sector and military data.
- Leaked documents revealed that Israel's $1.2 billion Project Nimbus deal with Google and Amazon required the companies to secretly alert Israeli officials whenever foreign courts requested access to Israeli data.
- The companies were obliged to send hidden messages disguised as monetary payments based on the country code of the nation requesting the data, in a practice called the 'winking mechanism'.
- A legal opinion cited in the report claimed that this system circumvents existing legislation in the US and Europe that prohibits reporting data transfers to a third party when done by court order.
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Report: Google and Amazon Violated Their Own Terms of Service in Israel’s $1.2 Billion “Project Nimbus” Deal
A new investigation details how the tech giants Google and Amazon violated their own terms of service in a lucrative contract with the Israeli government to provide cloud computing and AI services used during Israel’s two-year assault on the Gaza Strip. The investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call and The Guardian finds that as part of the $1.2 billion deal known as “Project Nimbus,” Google and Amazon are obliged to secretly notify Israel if a…
Israel Urged Google, Amazon To Evade Laws Using ‘Wink’ Code, Reports Say
When Google and Amazon signed a $1.2 billion cloud deal with Israel in 2021, they reportedly agreed to a bizarre condition — a secret “winking mechanism.” The code, hidden in financial transactions, would quietly alert Israel whenever its data was handed over to foreign authorities. Sounds like a spy movie, right?According to leaked documents seen by The Guardian, Israel demanded this covert system. It was to ensure it never lost control of sens…
Israel demanded Google, Amazon use secret code to bypass legal obligations, investigation reveals
Tech giants Google and Amazon agreed to use a secret code to evade legal obligations in countries around the world to serve Israeli interests, a report by The Guardian has revealed. The joint investigation, conducted with Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, highlights how a $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal in 2021 (known as Project Nimbus) between Israeli government and the tech firms had an “unu…
Google and Amazon’s Israel Cloud Deal Includes Covert ‘Notification’ Path for Data Requests
When Israel signed Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud infrastructure deal with Google and Amazon, the plan was presented as a step toward modernizing how the country handles data across its government systems. The project promised to transfer sensitive records into a secure national cloud, built and maintained by two of the world’s largest technology companies. But recently surfaced documents now show that this contract also contains a quiet p…
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