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Google's 'Project Nimbus' AI Contract With Israel Can Be Used In Warfare And Mass Surveillance
A previously undisclosed email and new documents show the Project Nimbus deal isn’t covered by Google’s general terms of service.
While Amazon has largely remained silent in the face of employee activism and outside scrutiny, Google routinely downplays or denies the military reach of Project Nimbus — despite the Israeli Finance Ministry’s 2021 announcement that the deal would service the country’s “defense establishment.” In October, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory placed a public call for information pertaining to private sector involvement in “the commission of international crimes connected to Israel’s unlawful occupation, racial segregation and apartheid regime,” according to a press release. “This is most evidently demonstrated by how the Project Nimbus contract itself includes a clause granting authority to Israeli officials to modify the companies’ standard terms of use agreements in ways that have not been made clear to the public.”
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