Amazon and Google Must Keep Their Promises on Project Nimbus

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says Amazon and Google have failed to answer its letters asking how they are complying with public promises that their technologies will not facilitate human rights violations. EFF publicly called on the companies in August 2024 to disclose their involvement in Project Nimbus, a joint cloud computing initiative reportedly used for surveillance of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. It sent letters in late September 2024 to Amazon's Global Head of Public Policy and Google's Global Head of Human Rights, requesting answers by November 1, 2024, and the companies did not respond. EFF now says it is increasingly concerned about the companies' complicity.