Amazon, Google secretly tell Israel about data handed to foreign goverments

Amazon and Google incorporated a covert "winking mechanism" into their $1.2 billion Project Nimbus cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government, enabling secret notifications of data handovers to foreign authorities despite gag orders.

Leaked documents, reviewed by The Guardian in collaboration with +972 Magazine and Local Call, detail how the companies agreed to alert Israel's Ministry of Finance via coded financial transfers within 24 hours of complying with foreign requests for Israeli government or military data.

These "special compensation" payments encode the requesting country's international telephone dialing code; for U.S.