James Bond also surrenders to artificial intelligence and accelerates on digital transformation by converting to cloud computing. The three British spy agencies, Gchq, MI5 and MI6, have signed a contract with Amazon Web Services for a high-security cloud used to host classified data.
Her Majesty’s spies will thus be able to count on the sharing of data in real time from every corner of the Earth using sophisticated systems such as voice recognition systems that can translate and identify the potential authors of single sentences in hours within hours. of registration.
According to what was reconstructed by the Financial Times, the agreement with AWS provides that classified intelligence data are managed by the data centers of the Amazon cloud computing division, in an optimal way to exploit “the use of data analytics and artificial intelligence »In order to obtain all the useful information in the field of espionage.
The high-security cloud system will be used not only by the three intelligence agencies, but also by other government departments such as the Ministry of Defense as part of joint operations.
The agreement, valued by industry experts between “500 million and one billion pounds over the next ten years”, will not fail to stir up controversy over data sovereignty, since a huge mass of the most sensitive information of a country like Great Britain, will be entrusted to a single American hi-tech operator.