LONDON, October 26, 2021 (AFP) – Internet giant Amazon, through its intangible computing company AWS, has signed a confidential data storage agreement with British secret services, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday), citing sources close to Convention.
The contract aims, among other things, to enhance data analysis and artificial intelligence for espionage by Britain’s GCHQ, intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 or other services of the Ministry of Defense during joint operations, the financial newspaper adds.
The contract is estimated at between 500 million and one billion pounds (688.5 million and 1.377 billion US dollars) over the next decade, according to sources in the newspaper, who indicated that the data will remain in the United Kingdom and that Amazon will not have it. access to them.
However, this information may revive the debate over the UK’s supremacy over its strategic industries, at a time when the government is considering whether to exclude Chinese group CGN from the Sizewell C nuclear power plant project, after excluding telecoms company Huawei from the country’s 5G company. network.
Amazon and GCHQ have not yet responded to AFP’s questions and the Defense Department has declined to comment.
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