GoKawiil2024 emails show SEC, FBI officials worried Amazon could train AI on their cloud data
Emails from 2024 obtained by Fast Company reveal that officials at the SEC and FBI scrambled to understand changes Amazon made to its cloud services terms and conditions. The correspondence shows federal staff trying to determine whether the updated terms would let Amazon use government data stored on its cloud to train artificial intelligence models.
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The episode suggests that even sophisticated federal agencies can struggle to parse the fine print of major cloud providers' terms, raising questions about oversight of sensitive government data hosted commercially. It also points to broader unease across government about how cloud vendors' AI ambitions might intersect with data they were never explicitly authorized to use for model training.
- Emails from 2024 show SEC and FBI officials questioning Amazon's cloud terms changes.
- Concerns centered on whether Amazon could use government data to train AI models.
- The episode highlights friction between agencies and cloud vendors over data-use rights.
Source: fastcompany.com, 2026-09-28
Published there as: “Federal officials once feared Amazon could train AI on government data”
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