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The Israeli govt used a secret system with AWS and Google to get notifications when foreign courts requested Israeli data

The system used return-payments, where the sum started with the telephone dialing code of the country that requested data

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…

text that reads: Under the terms of the deal, the mechanism works like this: If either Google or Amazon provides information to authorities in the US, where the dialing code is +1, and they are prevented from disclosing their cooperation, they must send the Israeli government 1,000 shekels. If, for example, the companies receive a request for Israeli data from authorities in Italy, where the dialing code is +39, they must send 3,900 shekels. If the companies conclude the terms of a gag order prevent them from even signaling which country has received the data, there is a backstop: the companies must pay 100,000 shekels ($30,000) to the Israeli government.

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders

The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
Harry Davies (The Guardian)

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VessOnSecurity
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This sounds blatantly illegal. If a private person did this, they would be in jail for half a dozen crimes, starting with obstruction of justice.
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Bob K Mertz
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This paragraph hit me harder than the main point of the story:

"They feared Google or Amazon might bow to employee or shareholder pressure and withdraw Israel’s access to its products and services if linked to human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories."

It's essentially an admission that they knew they were and/or would be violating human rights.

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