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Google 'playing with fire' by acquiring Israeli company founded by Unit 8200 veterans (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 1 year ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Google employees and human rights groups have raised concerns about the tech giant’s purchase of an Israeli start-up in an unprecedented $32bn deal.

Google on Tuesday announced the all-cash acquisition of Wiz, an Israeli cloud security firm which was founded by former members of Unit 8200, an elite Israeli army cyber-espionage and surveillance unit.

The deal comes with the Google already facing internal and external pressure over its controversial Project Nimbus contract, through which along with Amazon it provides cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli government and military.

A spokesperson for No Tech for Apartheid, a coalition of Google and Amazon workers campaigning against the companies' involvement with Israel, said Google was "playing with fire" by buying Wiz.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Paul Biggar made a great summary about how these "acquisitions" serve to get Israeli spies into American tech companies. Those spies then use their powers for Israel.

The Wiz acquisition is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into Big Tech in history.

[–] itstoowet@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm convinced my old company was complicit in this to some degree. It was a start up with absolutely silly funding for a bunch of products (b2c and b2b) that were aimed to hoover up personal information under the guise of gaming.

For some reason we were told to start an office in Tel Aviv and to specifically hire devs from unit 8200.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As if Google isn't already crammed with Israeli spies. In fact, that's probably why an Israeli company just got a sweetheart buy out from Google! This is just a continuation of a pre-existing issue Google already had.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

It also puts $4billion directly into the Israeli tax bank for some much needed genocide funding.