Google, Amazon agree to Israel’s ‘wink’ demand to signal foreign data access, investigation reveals

DUBAI: Tech giants Google and Amazon agreed to use a secret code to warn their client, the Israeli government, if their data was being handed over to foreign law enforcement, according to a joint investigation by The Guardian, Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine, and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call. The agreement was part of a $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal inked in 2021, known as Project Nimbus. It stemmed from Israel’s concerns that the data it stores on these tech companies’ cloud platforms could end up in the hands of foreign law enforcement authorities.

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