Project Nimbus
Updated 2024-02-26
Project Nimbus -Wilipedia A cloud computing project of the Israeli government and its military. The Israeli Finance Ministry announced April 2021, that the contract is to provide “the government, the defense establishment, and others with an all-encompassing cloud solution.” Under the contract, the companies will establish local cloud sites that will “keep information within Israel’s borders under strict security guidelines.
The contract has drawn rebuke and condemnation from the companies’ shareholders as well as their employees, over concerns that the project will lead to further abuses of Palestinians’ human rights in the context of the ongoing occupation and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Specifically, they voice concern over how the technology will enable further surveillance of Palestinians and unlawful data collection on them as well as facilitate the expansion of Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian land. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Nimbus
2024-01-19 Companies across tech have powered the current genocide of Palestinians in Gaza Over the last 100+ days, Israel has escalated its assault on Gaza in what’s being called the first AI-facilitated genocide in human history. @amazon @google & companies across tech have powered the current genocide of Palestinians in Gaza & the surveillance & oppression of Paletinians across historic Palestine for years, revving up Israel’s genocide machine that has led to the murder of 32K+ Palestinians, according to @euromedhr.
Last November, a @972mag investigation revealed the Israeli military’s use of a new AI-based system called Habsora (“The Gospel”) to automatically generate bombing targets & kill Palestinians in Gaza at an unprecedented rate. Google & Amazon are also providing powerful AI tech to the Israeli military through the $1B Project Nimbus contract, which was signed while Israel dropped bombs on Gaza during its May 2021 assault.
In 2022, a @theintercept investigation confirmed @Google is offering advanced AI & machine-learning capabilities to Israel via Nimbus. The docs indicate that the new cloud would include facial detection tech & even sentiment analysis that claims to “assess the emotional content of pictures, speech & writing” to Israel. Any of these capabilities supercharge Israel’s ability to surveil Palestinians & collect/process data on Palestinians—key strategies of the Israeli occupation. https://www.instagram.com/p/C2S3m5uOq8C/?img_index=1
2022-07-24 DOCUMENTS REVEAL ADVANCED AI TOOLS GOOGLE IS SELLING TO ISRAEL The Intercept confirm that Google is offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities to the Israeli government through its controversial “Project Nimbus” contract. The Israeli Finance Ministry announced the contract in April 2021 for a $1.2 billion cloud computing system jointly built by Google and Amazon.
In 2021, both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International formally accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity by maintaining an apartheid system against Palestinians. While the Israeli military and security services already rely on a sophisticated system of computerized surveillance, the sophistication of Google’s data analysis offerings could worsen the increasingly data-driven military occupation. https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus/
2021-10-21 We are Google and Amazon workers. We condemn Project Nimbus We cannot support our employer’s decision to supply the Israeli military and government technology that is used to harm Palestinians https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/12/google-amazon-workers-condemn-project-nimbus-israeli-military-contract
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