Government Contracts

The non-profit Tech Inquiry has discovered alleged ties between technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft with the United States law enforcement agencies such as the FBI, Department of Defense, Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Prisons and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Tech inquiry has analyzed over 30 million governmental contracts from the past five years and sub-contracts below them. They discovered that Google and Amazon several hundreds of subcontracts with United States law enforcement agencies while Microsoft several thousand.

The contract award procedures for the homes of asylum seekers in the German town Haan in 2018, led the prosecutors to search for evidence in the office accommodation and private home of a former staff member. He is faced with the criminal charge of corruption due to the fact, that he was invited to a holiday trip by one of the security companies which was making a bit for the contract.