Jemmy‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18923426
The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, while procuring further AI tools from Google and Microsoft for military purposes, an investigation reveals.
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This feels like colonial forces using the maxim gun: all well and good for the colonial forces against a vastly inferior force, but what happens with near-peer conflict? Amazon probably does not maintain sufficient abilities to secure their servers as military intel would warrant.
suokoAt least civilian tech is more advanced than military tech. Whose controlling who?
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Ugh, this is gross and terrifying
delirious_owlAmazon is to the Israeli genocide what IBM was to the Nazi genocide
I wonder if any of this data is in a country where the ICC would have the ability to go to the data center and collect the data to build a better case for indicating Israeli war criminals?
Not that the ICJ doesn't already have mountains of evidence of a textbook case of genocide..
Google and Amazon, established data centers in Israel in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Anatoly Kushnir, co-founder of the Israeli tech firm Comm-IT, which has been helping military units migrate to the cloud since October, explained to +972 and Local Call that Nimbus “created an infrastructure” of advanced computer centers under Israeli jurisdiction.
This arrangement, he said, made it easier for “security entities, even the more sensitive ones,” to store information in the cloud during the war without fear from overseas courts — which, presumably, might demand the information in the event of a lawsuit against Israel.
Daymn, they're straight-up complicit in trying to hide their war crimes from international courts!
In the past, “you would see the whites of your enemy’s eyes, look through binoculars and see him explode.” Today, however, when a target appears, “you tell [soldiers] through the laptop, ‘Shoot with the tank.'”
One of the apps on the military’s internal cloud is called Z-Tube (Z being short for Zahal, the acronym for the IDF); it is a website, which looks much like Youtube, that allows soldiers to access live footage of all the military’s filming devices in Gaza, including UAVs. Another app, called “MapIt,” allows soldiers to mark targets in real time on a collaborative, interactive map. “Targets are the heaviest layer on the map,” a security source told +972 and Local Call. “It looks like every house has a target.”
A related app called “Hunter” is used for signaling targets in Gaza and detecting patterns of behavior using AI
Jesus, that explains why there's so many Israeli kids in Gaza slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians in residential neighborhoods
The US is already funding this war with military weapons and and diplomatic coverage. Why wouldn't it also want it's tech companies to profit?
This is one of things in the world that just isn't going to change and that's extremely depressing.