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Israel Demanded Google and Amazon Use Secret 'Wink' To Sidestep Legal Orders


An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2 billion cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer -- the Israeli government -- had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the "winking ...

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