Google, AWS, Microsoft quietly use 3rd parties to work with ICE, CBP

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have taken advantage of a commonly used but little-known tool to quietly enter dozens of contracts with ICE and CBP

Google was involved in at least four contracts with CBP, all through third-party contractors, when Kurian made that statement, according to records that Insider reviewed. Google is involved in at least four active contracts with CBP, Amazon is involved in at least eight active contracts with ICE and CBP, and Microsoft is involved in at least 16 active contracts with ICE and CBP. All these contracts except for two of Microsoft's involved technologies sold through intermediaries.

"We don't want to live under this system, and so we should not be building it or having any part of it," Knapp said. Even though Amazon, Google, and Microsoft may be one or two steps removed from CBP and ICE, the companies would generally know that their technology is helping those agencies, one of the contractors said. That's because the companies get purchase orders from intermediaries and need to sign off on their technology being used, the person explained.

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