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Alibaba DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-08
Digital Score 2.08 /10 C Alibaba - Complicity Index 454
Digital 2.08

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Evidence Qualification - 8 September 2026

The university-agreement absence above is limited to primary-source verification of a formal agreement: secondary reporting does describe the Israel Machine Laboratory partnership with Tel Aviv University on video analysis and machine learning. It is not an absence of all public reporting of co-development.15

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577552/000095017025090161/baba-20250331.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  2. https://investigate.afsc.org/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  3. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/find?Category=4&Type=List ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577552/000119312526231755/baba-20260331.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14

  5. https://www.checkpoint.com/tw/press-releases/check-point-software-technologies-expands-its-unified-cloud-native-platform-to-support-alibaba-cloud/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2018/09/partnership-announcement-alibaba-cloud/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-extends-cnapp-leadership-with-protection-for-alibaba-cloud ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. https://selacloud.com/news/alibaba-cloud-one-of-the-top-three-worldwide-cloud-services-providers-arrives-in-israel/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  9. https://www.alibabacloud.com/fr/partner/sela?_p_lc=1 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  10. https://selacloud.com/partners/alibaba-cloud/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  11. https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/23/alibaba-jvp/ ↩ ↩2

  12. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-4640490%2C00.html ↩ ↩2

  13. https://jvpvc.com/newsroom/building-leading-cyber-1-innovators/ ↩ ↩2

  14. https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/01/alibaba-visualead-tel-aviv-rd-center/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  15. https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/24/alibaba-acquires-israeli-vr-startup-infinity-augmented-reality/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  16. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/syloesp95 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  17. https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/19/alibaba-visualead/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/ecs/user-guide/regions-and-zones ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  19. https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/about?_p_lc=1 ↩

  20. https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/cdn/user-guide/configure-global-resource-planning ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  21. https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/arms/cloud-dial-test-2-0/pc-client-monitoring-points-outside-china ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  22. https://www.mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/en/news/details/111222 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  23. https://www.gov.il/en/pages/_bpress_20102022 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  24. https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/reports/pdns_280124/he/pdns_tender_17_9_2024_clean_version_english_2_1.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  25. https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/account/aliyun-vs-alibaba-cloud ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  26. https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/legal/latest/alibaba-cloud-international-website-privacy-policy ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  27. https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/security-center/what-is-security-center ↩ ↩2

  28. https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/legal/latest/user-information-legal-enquiry-guide-user-information-legal-enquiry-guide ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  29. https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/HRC-59-23.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  30. https://www.alibabagroup.com/en-US/about-alibaba-memorabilia-1494029069296074752 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  31. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sqream-raises-264m-in-strategic-series-b-funding-round-led-by-alibaba-group-684033931.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  32. https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/05/thetaray-nabs-57m-for-ai-tools-to-id-and-fight-money-laundering/ ↩

  33. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-5250390%2C00.html ↩ ↩2

  34. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1577552/000119312526274928/d133513dex991.pdf ↩ ↩2

  35. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575879/000119312516665619/d236359dex991.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  36. https://www.un.org/unispal/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/OHCHRDATABASEOPT_300630.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  37. https://www.un.org/unispal/document/business-database-26sep25/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4