29 August 2023 San Francisco: No Tech for Israeli Apartheid
A protest at the Moscone Center in San Francisco of Israel's Project Nimbus. From Wikipedia:
"Project Nimbus... is 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 a $1.2 billion contract, technology companies Google (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) were selected to provide Israeli government agencies with cloud computing services, including artificial intelligence and machine learning.
"The terms Israel set for the project contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure. The tech companies are also forbidden from denying service to any particular government entities...
"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."
These photos may be used freely for non-commercial purposes, including journalism, provided that the photographer is credited whenever they are used (Photographer's name, ProBonoPhoto.org).
The photographer at this event were Leon Kunstenaar and Rachel Podlishevsky.
For more information about Pro Bono Photo photographers, see http://www.ProBonoPhoto.org/Who-We-Are.
Read More"Project Nimbus... is 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 a $1.2 billion contract, technology companies Google (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon (Amazon Web Services) were selected to provide Israeli government agencies with cloud computing services, including artificial intelligence and machine learning.
"The terms Israel set for the project contractually forbid Amazon and Google from halting services due to boycott pressure. The tech companies are also forbidden from denying service to any particular government entities...
"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."
These photos may be used freely for non-commercial purposes, including journalism, provided that the photographer is credited whenever they are used (Photographer's name, ProBonoPhoto.org).
The photographer at this event were Leon Kunstenaar and Rachel Podlishevsky.
For more information about Pro Bono Photo photographers, see http://www.ProBonoPhoto.org/Who-We-Are.
