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415 Google and Amazon's Israeli cloud contracts reportedly require them to sidestep legal orders

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Will Shanklin @ Engadget · 10/29/2025 12:46 EDT

Google and Amazon's Israeli cloud contracts reportedly require them to sidestep legal orders

Chalk this one up under "The most clever (alleged) legal sidesteps this side of Tony Soprano." On Wednesday, The Guardian published a report about a so-called "winking mechanism" regarding Israeli cloud computing contracts with Amazon and Google. The stipulation from 2021's Project Nimbus is said to require the US companies to send coded messages to Israel. According to the report, whenever Google or Amazon secretly complies with an overseas legal request for Israeli data, they're required to send money to.

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