Peugeot DIGITAL

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

No public evidence identified of Peugeot or its parent Stellantis holding licensing, subscription, or integration relationships with major Israeli cybersecurity or enterprise-software vendors such as Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, Nice, Verint, Claroty, or Palo Alto Networks. Stellantis did sign a five-year strategic collaboration with Microsoft, announced 16 April 2026, covering Azure cloud migration, Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment (an initial 20,000 licences), and an AI-driven global cyberdefense center spanning IT, connected-vehicle, and manufacturing systems ^{1, 2, 3, 4}. Microsoft is a US-headquartered hyperscaler, not an Israeli-origin vendor, and no Israeli-specific technology component of this deal has been documented in the sources reviewed. No public evidence identified of a named systems integrator or IT outsourcing partner mandating or deploying Israeli-origin cybersecurity technology on Peugeot’s behalf. Separately, Stellantis named Amazon Web Services its “preferred cloud provider for vehicle platforms” under a multi-year global agreement announced 5 January 2022, covering the STLA SmartCockpit platform (slated to run in millions of Stellantis vehicles globally from 2024), migration of the group’s vehicle data pipeline into a cloud-based data mesh, a jointly built “Virtual Engineering Workbench,” and a global network of AWS-powered Innovation Hubs ⁵; AWS case-study material published 1 March 2024 describes the Virtual Engineering Workbench and a connected-vehicle Data Infrastructure Architecture as active, ongoing programmes ⁶. Navigation for the same STLA SmartCockpit platform is supplied by TomTom (Netherlands), awarded a global contract reported 7 November 2022 for maps, navigation software, and connected services with deployment from 2024 ⁷; TomTom separately publishes its own editorial guidance on culturally sensitive map development in geopolitically contested regions ⁸. Stellantis joined GlobalPlatform on 28 August 2025 to work on vehicle-cybersecurity standardisation, with Bill Mazzara, its North American regulatory lead and technical fellow for product cybersecurity, becoming co-chair of the GlobalPlatform Automotive Task Force ⁹; the task force’s own page names Richard Hayton (Qualcomm, previously CTO of Trustonic) as the other co-chair and lists SAE International, AUTOSAR, the Car Connectivity Consortium, Auto-ISAC, Trustonic, and Qualcomm among participants, with no Israeli-origin member firm identified among them ¹⁰.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Peugeot dealership, showroom, or manufacturing-facility use of Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, or gait-analysis technology from vendors such as Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, or Trax. No public evidence identified of Israeli-origin predictive-policing, sentiment-analysis, or workforce-surveillance tools in use at Peugeot facilities, nor of indirect or bundled deployment of such tools via third-party retail or manufacturing platforms. Stellantis was granted a U.S. patent, issued 1 July 2025, for an in-house biometric/facial-recognition vehicle-entry system that reuses existing onboard driver-assistance cameras rather than dedicated hardware; no third-party or Israeli vendor is named in reporting on the patent ¹¹. At franchisee level, the Israeli-founded telematics firms Cellocator and Pointer Telocation - both now operating under Nasdaq-listed PowerFleet - supply the “CR-300” connected-car hardware/software solution bundled into Peugeot, Citroën, DS, and MG vehicles sold in Israel through the Lubinski Group, Israel’s sole importer of those marques, capturing location, vehicle-security, accident-detection, and maintenance data; this is a franchisee-level integration rather than a global Stellantis one ¹². The same corporate parent separately supplies fleet-management and driver-identification technology to the Israel Police for a fleet of more than 7,500 vehicles across 61 vehicle types under a four-year contract announced 10 May 2021, with geo-tracked travel logs recording location, route, speed, engine state, and time parked ^{13, 14}; no public evidence identified connects that Israel Police contract to Peugeot-branded vehicles specifically.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

No public evidence identified of Peugeot or Stellantis operating or leasing data-centre infrastructure located inside Israel. No public evidence identified of Peugeot/Stellantis participation in Project Nimbus or any comparable Israeli state-backed sovereign-cloud programme; publicly confirmed Project Nimbus contract holders are limited to Google and Amazon Web Services, and neither Stellantis nor Peugeot appears in Nimbus-related reporting reviewed for this audit. No public evidence identified of Peugeot/Stellantis providing data-sovereignty, resilience, or hosting services to Israeli state or military bodies. There is, however, indirect vendor overlap rather than any direct Stellantis-Israel contract. Stellantis’s stated “preferred cloud provider for vehicle platforms,” AWS, is one of the two prime contractors for Israel’s Project Nimbus government-cloud programme, announced by Israel’s Finance Ministry in April 2021 as a $1.2 billion, initially seven-year contract covering government agencies, the defence establishment, and security services ^{5, 15}, and AWS separately operates the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) “il-central-1” region, generally available from 1 August 2023 with three availability zones ¹⁶, alongside an announced approximately $7.2 billion AWS investment in Israel through 2037 ¹⁷. No public evidence identified that Stellantis or Peugeot data is routed through or stored in the AWS Israel region. A second indirect overlap involves Microsoft: per a document reviewed by the Associated Press, Microsoft signed a $133 million three-year contract with Israel’s Ministry of Defense in 2021, and the Israeli military is carried as a top-tier Microsoft customer with at least 635 individual subscriptions identified by code names including “8200” and “Mamram” ¹⁸. Guardian/+972 Magazine/Local Call reporting published in August 2025 found Unit 8200 had accumulated roughly 8,000 terabytes of intercepted Palestinian phone-call data on Azure ¹⁹, after which Microsoft in September 2025 ceased and disabled a set of cloud-storage and AI services to the Ministry of Defense unit concerned, stating its internal review had found evidence supporting elements of that reporting ²⁰. No public evidence identified links Stellantis’s own Azure tenancy or data to that military-facing infrastructure; these are separate commercial engagements with a shared vendor.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of a direct Peugeot or Stellantis contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, the IDF, or Israeli intelligence agencies for IT, software, or data services. A non-digital, vehicle-hardware data point is noted for completeness: the IDF’s centralized officer vehicle-leasing tender (Technology and Logistics Directorate), in its most recent documented cycle (2023), assigns Peugeot 2008 compact crossovers to company commanders within a multi-brand leasing pool alongside Kia, Chery, and Škoda ²¹. This is a fleet-leasing/hardware arrangement rather than a software, data, or surveillance-technology relationship, and falls outside Digital’s digital-technology scope; it is documented here only for cross-reference completeness. No public evidence identified of offensive cyber capability development, zero-day tooling, or digital-weapons systems by Peugeot/Stellantis, nor of Israeli state deployment of Peugeot- or Stellantis-originated cyber tools.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Stellantis has an active advanced-driver-assistance-systems (ADAS) supply relationship with Mobileye, the Israeli-founded, Jerusalem-headquartered, Intel-owned computer-vision company. A July 2026 announcement describes an expansion of cloud-enhanced ADAS - incorporating Mobileye’s crowdsourced Road Experience Management (REM) mapping platform - into “select future Stellantis vehicles” launching in 2027, framed as an extension of an existing but undocumented prior Mobileye-Stellantis agreement ^{22, 23}. No source identified confirms whether this technology will be fitted specifically to Peugeot-badged models as opposed to other Stellantis brands such as Jeep, Opel, Fiat, Citroën, or DS; brand-level allocation is undisclosed. Separately, Stellantis’s FCA Italy subsidiary honored Vayyar, an Israeli 4D-imaging-radar company, at its 14 December 2023 Venture Awards for in-cabin monitoring, seat-belt-reminder, and child-presence-detection technology, a civilian automotive-safety application ²⁴. Vayyar’s core radar/imaging technology is independently marketed for public-safety, security-screening, and through-wall detection use by military, police, and search-and-rescue units in roughly 60 countries ^{25, 26}, but no source links Stellantis/Peugeot’s specific in-cabin-monitoring engagement to that separate public-safety/defense product line; these appear to be distinct Vayyar business units, and the underlying dual-use adjacency between them is not resolved by available sources. No public evidence identified that Peugeot/Stellantis AI models have been trained on, or given access to, civilian population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets originating from Israel or the occupied territories. No public evidence identified of Peugeot/Stellantis providing autonomous target-generation, automated threat-detection, or autonomous-tracking systems to Israeli military or security forces. On the financial character of the Vayyar relationship, Vayyar’s $108 million funding round, reported 6 June 2022, was led by Koch Disruptive Technologies with participation from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, More VC, Regal Four, Claltech, GLy Capital Management, and Atreides Management; Stellantis is not named among the investors in that round ²⁷.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Stellantis, via its wholly owned subsidiary FCA Italy S.p.A., signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Israel Innovation Authority on 7 April 2021 under the Authority’s “R&D and Pilot Collaboration with Multinational Corporations (MNC) Program” ^{28, 29, 30, 31}. The MoU’s scope covers driving-assistance, cybersecurity, Industry 4.0, and e-mobility solutions, with the Authority identifying and part-funding relevant Israeli startups while Stellantis/FCA Italy provides R&D support, marketing, and global scale-up assistance through its FCA Research Center (CRF) ²⁹. By April 2021, Stellantis had reportedly been scouting more than 30 Israeli startups for over a year, with confidential proofs-of-concept underway ²⁹. No dedicated Stellantis-owned R&D facility or office inside Israel is documented; the collaboration is a startup-scouting and funding-partnership arrangement rather than an Israel-based Stellantis lab. The December 2023 Vayyar Venture Award confirms this pipeline remained active at least through that date ²⁴, though no source confirms whether the MoU or scouting programme continued beyond 2023. No public evidence identified of Stellantis or Peugeot acquiring an Israeli-origin technology company; the Vayyar and other Venture Award relationships appear to be partnership or pilot arrangements rather than equity acquisitions. No public evidence identified of a patent portfolio, licensing agreement, or co-development arrangement between Peugeot/Stellantis and Technion, Hebrew University, or the Weizmann Institute specifically. Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund whose 2023 award materials describe it as established with an initial investment of €300 million and holding twelve investments at that date, discloses no equity stake or investment size for Vayyar or any other individual award recipient ²⁴. A historical, pre-merger precedent exists at group level: on 9 February 2015 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Iveco, and Magneti Marelli signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Israel’s Fuel Choices Initiative - the national alternative-fuels programme run through the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office - to co-operate on natural-gas vehicle technology and to discuss an extended R&D programme involving Israeli companies in alternative fuels and smart mobility ³²; no public evidence identified confirms the status of that relationship under the present Stellantis entity.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

No public evidence identified of Peugeot or Stellantis being named in the OHCHR database of business enterprises pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolutions 31/36 and 53/25, across its 2020, 2023, and 2025 iterations ^{33, 34, 35}, nor in Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s 2 July 2025 report A/HRC/59/23, “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide,” in the paragraphs addressing surveillance, AI, cloud, or Project Nimbus ^{36, 37}. Who Profits documents extensive Israeli military and police vehicle-tender activity by Colmobil Corporation - Israel’s importer of Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Genesis, Hyundai, Smart, Freightliner, and King Long vehicles - including Israeli Ministry of Defense tenders for ambulances, trucks, and officer-lease vehicles from 2014–2023, and emergency supply of trucks and ambulances during the November 2023 Gaza invasion period ^{38, 39}. Colmobil’s own Who Profits profile does not list Peugeot, Citroën, or DS among its distributed brands ³⁹; those Stellantis marques are instead distributed in Israel by the Lubinski Group (David Lubinski Ltd.), Israel’s sole importer of Peugeot and Citroën since 1936 ^{40, 41}. Lubinski Group has also deployed a connected-car telematics solution supplied by Pointer Telocation/Cellocator across its distributed fleet ^{42, 12}. No Who Profits, OHCHR, or comparable NGO database entry for the Lubinski Group was identified in the sources reviewed for this audit; this is a genuine evidence gap rather than a confirmed negative finding, since Lubinski does not appear to have been covered by these NGO source classes at all. No organized, sustained BDS or comparable boycott/divestment campaign specifically targeting Peugeot or Stellantis on Israel/Palestine technology-provision grounds was identified in the sources reviewed. No public evidence identified of export-control, sanctions, or regulatory action involving Peugeot/Stellantis technology sales to Israeli state entities; Global Investigations Review’s Stellantis organisation tracker shows no Israel-related matter ⁴³. A separate, Israel-unrelated regulatory matter - Peugeot’s approximately $475 million payment to Iran Khodro tied to its sanctions-era withdrawal from Iran - was checked and found non-responsive to this audit’s Israel-technology scope ⁴⁴. On governance, Daniel Ramot was appointed a Stellantis non-executive director with effect from 15 April 2025 and sits on the Remuneration Committee ⁴⁵. Ramot is an Israeli-American entrepreneur and graduate of the IDF’s Talpiot programme who, per secondary biographical sources, served in the Israeli Air Force from 1996 to 2002 developing avionic systems for F-15 and F-16 aircraft before co-founding Via Transportation in 2012, a civilian public- and private-transit routing software company in which Exor NV - Stellantis’s largest shareholder, chaired by Stellantis chairman John Elkann - invested $200 million in 2020 ⁴⁶. No public evidence identified connects Ramot or Via to Israeli surveillance, cyber, SIGINT, or defence-technology firms.