Airbnb DIGITAL

Domain: Digital (Digital / Technology nexus)
Entity scope: Airbnb, Inc. (US; NASDAQ: ABNB), a Delaware corporation headquartered at 888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California.¹ Airbnb’s own technology acts are in scope; third-party software vendors and ecosystem partners are distinguished from Airbnb’s internal procurement. The settlement-listings business model is principally a Economic/Political matter and is addressed here only in its digital, platform, and geographic-attribution dimensions.^{2, 3, 4, 5}
Compiled: 2026-09-22
Method: Assessment limited to the supplied existing audit and updated research memo.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Airbnb’s 2025 Form 10-K states that third parties provide operational services including data storage and processing, trust and safety, infrastructure, source-code storage and management, and testing/deployment services; it does not identify those providers or their processing locations.¹

The identified enterprise vendors remain non-Israeli-domiciled: GBG (UK) provides identity and address verification, while GamePlanner.AI, acquired by Airbnb in 2023, was US-founded.^{6, 7} no public evidence identified, in the reviewed sources, that Airbnb licenses or integrates Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, Riskified, Forter, BioCatch, or Identiq for its internal technology stack.⁸ This is an evidence-status finding, rather than confirmation that no such relationship exists.

The Israeli-domiciled technology identified in the evidence concerns Airbnb’s third-party host-software ecosystem rather than its internal stack. Guesty, identified as Tel Aviv-based in retained research, was named an Airbnb 2025 Preferred+ Software Partner.^{9, 10} Airbnb describes the programme as serving professional hosts through property- and channel-management software, with partners subject to data-security and API-quality review.^{10, 11} This establishes an approved API/software-partner relationship, not procurement by Airbnb of Guesty technology for its corporate infrastructure.^{10, 11}

Retained research also records an Airbnb API integration for Duve, described as Tel Aviv-based, but no fresh primary Airbnb confirmation of its current partner status was retrieved.^{12, 9} Hospitable was also named a 2025 Preferred+ partner, but the reviewed official material does not establish its Israeli domicile; Preferred+ status alone is not an Israeli-technology finding.¹⁰

No public evidence identified of an Airbnb systems-integrator, digital-transformation, outsourcing, fraud, identity, or cybersecurity contract requiring Israeli-origin technology.^{8, 1}

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Airbnb deploying Israeli-origin facial-recognition, biometric-identification, gait-analysis, behavioural-surveillance, predictive-policing, sentiment-monitoring, social-media-monitoring, or workforce-surveillance technology.^{6, 1}

Airbnb’s identity-verification function is reported as using GBG and its own systems, with no Israeli-domiciled biometric provider identified.⁶ Airbnb’s 2025 DSA transparency report describes models for detecting apparently inauthentic listings that are subject to human review, but names no technology supplier and does not establish Israeli-origin technology.¹³

No public evidence identified that an Israeli-origin biometric or surveillance product reaches Airbnb through a managed-security provider or bundled enterprise suite.^{1, 13}

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Airbnb’s February 2026 Privacy Policy identifies Airbnb, Inc. and affiliates as processing personal information in connection with the platform.¹⁴ For accommodation activity located in Israel or the Palestinian Territories on or after 20 April 2026, Airbnb identifies Airbnb Limited LLC, at 888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California, as the controller for relevant non-payment activity; its applicable terms likewise identify that California entity for relevant accommodation bookings and offers.^{14, 15, 16}

This controller and contracting-entity disclosure establishes a US controller for that activity, but does not establish where information is stored, routed, remotely accessed, backed up, or otherwise processed.^{14, 15, 16} no public evidence identified of Airbnb operating data-centre infrastructure in Israel, using the AWS Israel region for customer data, operating colocation or data-processing facilities in Israel, or otherwise hosting customer data there.^{17, 1, 14}

No public evidence identified that Airbnb participates in Israel’s Project Nimbus government-cloud programme, holds an Israeli government-cloud contract, or provides data-residency, sovereign-cloud, or resilience services to Israeli state or military entities.^{17, 1}

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of a contract, partnership, data-sharing arrangement, technology provision, or service agreement between Airbnb and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, intelligence agencies, police/security bodies, or other Israeli state-security entities.^{1, 18}

No public evidence identified that Airbnb has developed, licensed, maintained, or supplied offensive-cyber tools, exploit capabilities, digital weapons systems, or surveillance technology to Israeli state actors.^{1, 18} Airbnb is a hospitality marketplace, and the reviewed evidence does not identify a state-security repurposing of its technology.^{1, 18}

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Airbnb’s identified AI activity is commercial platform activity. A secondary account describes Airbnb’s in-house fraud work as reducing fraudulent bookings and taking down thousands of phishing domains in 2024, while Airbnb’s DSA report documents listing-authenticity detection models with human review.^{19, 13} No Israeli-origin AI supplier was identified in the reviewed materials.^{1, 13}

No public evidence identified of Airbnb providing AI/ML, computer vision, decision-support, population data, intercepted communications, surveillance-derived datasets, or other data to Israeli military, intelligence, security, or state bodies.^{1, 18}

No public evidence identified of Airbnb providing autonomous target-generation, target-identification, fire-control, or autonomous tracking systems.^{1, 18}

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Airbnb’s 2025 Form 10-K lists seven significant subsidiaries in Ireland, Luxembourg, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States; none is incorporated in Israel.²⁰ This is not evidence that Airbnb has no non-significant subsidiary, branch, VAT entity, representative office, employer entity, or local legal presence in Israel.²⁰ The same Form 10-K contains no “Israel” string match, a document-scoped result that does not establish absence of Israeli operations, counterparties, or data flows.¹

No public evidence identified of an Airbnb R&D centre, engineering office, accelerator, data centre, Israeli-domiciled technology-company acquisition, Israeli venture-fund investment, or co-development or patent relationship with Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute, or another Israeli research institution.^{7, 1} Airbnb’s disclosed acquisition of GamePlanner.AI was US-founded, rather than an Israeli-domiciled acquisition.⁷

As of April 2026, Airbnb’s disclosed executive officers include Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO and Chair; Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer and director; and Elinor Mertz, CFO.²¹ Airbnb’s multi-class structure provides Class B shares with 20 votes per share; its 2025 ownership disclosure reported approximate aggregate voting power of 30.5% for Chesky, 29.7% for Blecharczyk, and 19.0% for Joseph Gebbia.^{21, 22} No verified public evidence was retrieved that Airbnb’s founders, named executive officers, board members, or disclosed major shareholders hold an investment, board role, or family-office stake in a named Israeli surveillance, cyber, SIGINT, military-technology, or AI firm.^{21, 22, 23}

The most substantiated Digital finding remains Airbnb’s platform presentation of settlement listings. Who Profits, AFSC Investigate, and Al-Haq describe Airbnb listings in occupied West Bank settlements and the Golan Heights as geographically attributed or labelled as “Israel.”^{2, 3, 4} The Guardian’s August 2024 review, published in February 2025, reported that two in five reviewed Airbnb settlement properties presented “Israel” in their title, address, or location details, while only two listings expressly mentioned Palestinian land.²⁴ This is evidence of a platform-output and location-attribution issue, not evidence identifying the internal algorithm, geocoding provider, or vendor responsible.²⁴

Human Rights Watch documented 139 Airbnb settlement listings in 2018 and instances of settlement locations presented as in Israel.⁵ [pre-2020] Airbnb announced a policy to remove certain settlement listings in 2018 and reversed that position in 2019; the post-2024 evidence above is the more current record of observed platform output.^{3, 5, 24}

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Airbnb remains listed in the UN OHCHR database of businesses involved in specified settlement-related activities. Its inclusion appears in the 2023 and September 2025 updates, with Airbnb Inc. identified as a United States entity under activity category “(e).”^{25, 26} The September 2025 update establishes continuing inclusion, not a quantified count of live listings on that date.²⁶

The UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report names Airbnb among platforms listing properties or hotel rooms in Israeli settlements and states that Airbnb has appeared in the OHCHR database since 2020.^{27, 18} Its discussion concerns settlement-property listings, rather than enterprise technology procurement, cloud infrastructure, AI provision, surveillance technology, or state-security contracts.^{27, 18}

Airbnb has faced sustained civil-society scrutiny over settlement listings, including Human Rights Watch’s 2018 report, Amnesty International’s IPO-period statement, and reported multi-jurisdictional legal actions involving GLAN, Al-Haq, and Sadaka.^{5, 28} These materials concern listings, platform presentation, and the settlement-rental business model rather than a distinct technology-supply relationship with Israeli state entities.^{5, 28}

A 2020 SCMP article reported Airbnb’s inclusion in the UN settlement-business database; this secondary reporting is retained as historical context, while the OHCHR’s 2025 update is the direct current source for continuing inclusion.^{29, 26} The BDS corporate-priority guide’s inclusion of Airbnb is advocacy context only; the underlying platform activity is independently supported by OHCHR, the Special Rapporteur’s report, and the Guardian review.^{24, 26, 18}

El País reported in February 2026 that Spain’s consumer authority required removal of more than 100 accommodation advertisements in occupied Palestinian territory following proceedings reportedly begun in December 2025, identifying Airbnb among major platforms concerned.³⁰ As the underlying authority order was not retrieved, this is an unresolved regulatory lead, not a verified finding concerning Airbnb technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.³⁰

Times of Israel/AFP reported in October 2025 that a French rights group filed a complaint against Airbnb and Booking.com concerning settlement listings.³¹ Because the complaint itself was not retrieved, this remains an unresolved legal lead.³¹ no public evidence identified of a regulatory inquiry, export-control action, sanctions investigation, or legal proceeding concerning Airbnb’s technology procurement from, or technology provision to, Israeli state entities.^{1, 18}