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Toyota DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-08
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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Toyota Motor Corporation is incorporated in Japan and, as of 31 March 2026, reported 390,927 consolidated employees, 602 consolidated subsidiaries, and 159 equity-method associates and joint ventures.1, 2 Toyota’s group-company material distinguishes the wider Toyota Group from Toyota Motor Corporation’s consolidated-subsidiary structure.1

Toyota Tsusho’s current disclosures identify Toyota Motor Corporation as its largest shareholder, holding 21.69% as of 31 March 2026, and describe Toyota Tsusho as a Toyota Motor Corporation associated company.3, 4 This supports separately attributing Toyota Tsusho’s activities from direct Toyota Motor Corporation activity.5, 3, 4

Toyota Tsusho announced an approximately US$1.5 million Series B investment in Israel-based Aurora Labs in September 2020.5 Toyota Tsusho stated that Aurora Labs’ tools analyse automotive software architecture and source-code behaviour and that it intended to commercialise software analysis, management, over-the-air programming support, and validation applications for smart-city IT-infrastructure updates.5 Aurora Labs’ current website continues to list Toyota Tsusho among its strategic and financial partners.6 This is evidence of a Toyota Tsusho–Aurora Labs relationship, not of Toyota Motor Corporation deployment, Toyota Tsusho’s current ownership percentage, board representation, or an Aurora Labs deployment in Toyota Motor Corporation vehicles.5, 6, 3, 4

Toyota Motor Corporation selected Mobileye and ZF on 18 May 2021 to develop advanced driver-assistance systems for multiple Toyota vehicle platforms beginning in subsequent years.7, 8 The announcements identify Mobileye’s EyeQ4 vision-computing system-on-chip, ZF camera technology, and ZF Gen21 mid-range radar.7, 8 They establish a supplier chain in which Mobileye supplied EyeQ4 technology and ZF supplied the radar and integrated the camera-and-radar system in Toyota vehicles.7, 8 The described system supported collision mitigation and lateral and longitudinal vehicle-control functions, with ZF characterising the radar-supported configuration as L2/L2+ capable.7, 8

Mobileye’s January 2023 investor-call record describes the Toyota programme as ongoing and not yet launched at that time.9 Mobileye’s later Form 10-K describes its general model of supplying OEMs directly or through Tier 1 suppliers, which commonly make payment to Mobileye, and identifies ZF as its largest Tier-1 customer by 2024 revenue.10 Neither that filing nor the reviewed Toyota, ZF, and Mobileye announcements identifies Toyota models, platform names, start-of-production dates, markets, volumes, purchase values, Toyota-specific revenue, or the current status of the 2021 programme.7, 8, 9, 10 no public evidence identified in the reviewed source set of a named Toyota model entering production with the particular EyeQ4/Gen21 configuration, of programme discontinuance, or of a later primary disclosure resolving its present deployment status.7, 8, 9, 10

The Mobileye/ZF arrangement is a product-specific Toyota Motor Corporation ADAS supplier relationship, rather than evidence of Toyota’s adoption of Mobileye for enterprise networking, cloud hosting, cybersecurity, call-centre operations, or customer-data platforms.7, 8

No public evidence identified of Toyota Motor Corporation licensing, subscribing to, or integrating Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, or another specifically identified Israeli-origin enterprise-security provider in the reviewed materials.11, 5 no public evidence identified of a Toyota systems integrator mandating or deploying Israeli-origin enterprise-security software in a Toyota programme.11, 5

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Toyota using Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, gait analysis, retail analytics, frictionless checkout, predictive-policing, sentiment-monitoring, or workforce-surveillance products.12, 13, 14

EyeQ4 is described in the Toyota, ZF, and Mobileye announcements as a forward-camera ADAS computer-vision component for vehicle-safety and control functions.7, 8 The reviewed sources do not describe it as a Toyota facial-recognition, occupant-biometric, retail-surveillance, predictive-policing, or workforce-monitoring product.7, 8

Toyota Motor North America’s connected-services notice describes opt-in face-identification and exterior-camera features in certain vehicles and states that facial geometric features for the identified feature are stored on the vehicle and not transmitted to Toyota.15 The notice does not identify Mobileye, ZF, Israeli-origin vendors, Israel, or Israeli infrastructure in connection with those features.15

No public evidence identified that Israeli-origin surveillance, biometric, or retail technologies reach Toyota indirectly through a named managed-security provider, platform provider, or bundled enterprise suite.12, 13, 14

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

No public evidence identified that Toyota operates, leases, or co-locates data-centre infrastructure in Israel, participates in Project Nimbus, or provides Israeli state or military institutions with data-residency, digital-sovereignty, or resilience services.16, 9, 17

Israel’s Ministry of Finance identified Google’s local cloud zone in its October 2022 Project Nimbus announcement and does not identify Toyota as a Nimbus provider, contractor, or participant.16 This source concerns the announced provider and is not a database-wide negative finding concerning every possible participant.16

Toyota Motor North America’s connected-services notice states that certain connected vehicles may collect location, driving, vehicle-health, exterior-image, and other data, and may disclose information to affiliates, business partners, and service providers including cloud-hosting and telematics providers.15 It does not identify Mobileye, EyeQ4, ZF, Israel, an Israeli data centre, or an Israeli recipient.15

Mobileye’s general privacy notice states that Mobileye is headquartered in Israel and may transfer personal information among affiliates, subsidiaries, and service providers in different countries.18 Mobileye’s sustainability report states that it holds data in cloud and on-site systems and includes Israeli sites within its TISAX certification scope.19 These are Mobileye-wide disclosures and do not identify Toyota as a data contributor, Toyota data, the Toyota EyeQ4 configuration, a Toyota contract, or a Toyota-specific transfer route.18, 19

Mobileye markets a separate Cloud-Enhanced ADAS offering using REM crowdsourced mapping and cloud-based analysis, including for EyeQ4 and later versions.10, 20 The 2021 Toyota announcement does not mention REM, Cloud-Enhanced ADAS, map-data uploads, data hosting, or cloud connectivity.7, 8 no public evidence identified of Toyota-specific vehicle, camera, location, mapping, customer, employee, or connected-services data being transferred to Israeli-controlled infrastructure or becoming legally accessible through Israeli jurisdiction through the documented EyeQ4/ZF relationship.7, 8, 10, 18, 15, 20

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No verified Digital evidence was located of Toyota contracts or service agreements with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, intelligence agencies, police, prisons, or other Israeli security bodies for IT, cloud, communications, data hosting, analytics, ADAS, or surveillance technology.12, 13, 14, 7, 8

No public evidence identified of Toyota’s EyeQ4/Gen21 system, other Toyota digital technology, or Mobileye’s Toyota-related supply being provided to Israeli defence, intelligence, police, prison, settlement, or occupied-territory customers.7, 8 The 2021 supplier announcements describe a commercial automotive ADAS relationship and identify no such customer.7, 8

Who Profits and AFSC describe Toyota vehicle-platform use in modified Israeli military or security vehicles, including reported use of Hilux and Land Cruiser chassis in named armoured vehicles.13, 14 DBIO’s 2025 report reproduces that account and attributes it to Who Profits and AFSC.21 These are civil-society reports concerning vehicle chassis and modifications, rather than independently verified provision of software, cloud, AI, surveillance, or other digital technology, and fall outside this Digital audit’s technology boundary.13, 14, 21

Who Profits reports that Union Motors, described as Toyota’s Israeli distributor, received a September 2021 tender to supply Toyota Hilux 4x4 vehicles to the Mateh Binyamin Regional Council.13 No accessible official tender, award, or contract record was located in the reviewed material, so this remains an NGO-sourced procurement lead rather than independently verified procurement evidence.13

No public evidence identified of Toyota developing, licensing, or maintaining offensive cyber tools, zero-day exploits, or digital weapons for Israeli state actors.11, 13, 14

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Toyota’s 2017 announcement states that Toyota AI Ventures assumed Toyota Research Institute’s investment position in Israel-based Intuition Robotics.11 Toyota described the venture fund’s remit as AI, robotics, autonomous mobility, and data/cloud technology, while describing Intuition Robotics as developing ElliQ social-companion technology.11

Intuition Robotics announced a US$25 million financing in August 2024 led by Woven Capital, with Toyota Ventures participating.22 Toyota stated that Woven Capital became a wholly owned Toyota subsidiary on 1 July 2025.23 Toyota’s FY2026 Form 20-F lists Woven Capital, L.P. as a wholly owned U.S.-incorporated consolidated subsidiary.1 Toyota Ventures’ current portfolio continues to list Intuition Robotics, and a September 2025 Kanematsu release identifies Toyota Ventures and Woven Capital among Intuition Robotics’ investors.24, 25

The reviewed sources do not disclose Toyota’s ownership percentage, investment vehicle, exit terms, information rights, data-sharing terms, or Toyota product-integration arrangements concerning Intuition Robotics.24, 22, 25 Toyota Ventures’ current team material identifies founder and general partner Jim Adler as serving on Intuition Robotics’ board, and Intuition Robotics stated that Woven Capital partner Nicole LeBlanc joined its board in connection with the August 2024 financing.26, 22 These are investor-side board roles and do not disclose a separate Intuition Robotics board seat held by a Toyota Motor Corporation director.26, 22

Intuition Robotics reported ElliQ deployments through specified United States ageing agencies, including New York State Office for the Aging and California’s Agency on Aging in Area 4, while the 2025 Kanematsu material describes Japanese-market co-development, sales, and servicing with Kanematsu.22, 25 no public evidence identified of Toyota Motor Corporation deploying Intuition Robotics’ products in vehicles, its enterprise stack, or its Israeli operations.11, 26, 24, 22, 25 no public evidence identified in the reviewed corporate, investor, company, UN, and targeted-search materials of Intuition Robotics or Toyota supplying a product to an Israeli state, military, intelligence, police, prison, settlement, or occupied-territory customer.11, 27, 28, 26, 24, 22, 25

No public evidence identified of Toyota AI, machine-learning, computer-vision, or autonomous decision-support systems, including the Toyota EyeQ4 configuration, being supplied to Israeli state, military, intelligence, police, or security bodies.11, 13, 14, 7, 8 no public evidence identified of Toyota models being trained on Israeli or occupied-territory civilian, surveillance, or intercepted-communications data, or of Toyota providing autonomous target-generation, lethal-tracking, or target-identification systems.11, 13, 14

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Toyota’s 2025 integrated report confirms strategic investment functions including Toyota Ventures and Woven Capital.29 Toyota’s September 2025 announcement identifies Woven Capital as a wholly owned Toyota subsidiary from 1 July 2025.23

Woven by Toyota states that it is 100% owned by Toyota Motor Corporation and lists offices in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, without listing an Israeli office.17 This is a current company-profile observation rather than a complete global-facilities audit.17 Toyota’s 2025 Form 20-F identifies Woven by Toyota software and automated-driving development sites in the United States and United Kingdom and does not list an Israeli R&D facility in its principal-facility table.30

Toyota’s 2017 Intuition Robotics investment and Toyota Tsusho’s 2020 Aurora Labs investment are verified Toyota-associated relationships with Israeli technology companies.11, 5 The current Toyota Ventures portfolio and Aurora Labs partner listing provide continuing public identification of the Intuition Robotics and Toyota Tsusho–Aurora relationships, respectively.24, 6 Neither set of materials establishes a Toyota-operated Israeli R&D centre, joint laboratory, acquisition, Toyota Motor Corporation product deployment, or Israeli state-sector customer.11, 5, 24, 6

Electreon’s April 2023 English translation of its issuer disclosure verifies that Electreon signed a memorandum of understanding with Toyota Motor Corporation and DENSO on 22 March 2023.31 The memorandum contemplated joint development of wireless charging for Toyota new vehicles during manufacturing and for existing vehicles through an aftermarket kit.31 Electreon stated that Toyota and DENSO technical teams participated in a two-week feasibility study at Electreon’s Beit Yanai, Israel headquarters, followed by a wireless-road demonstration using a Toyota RAV4 Plug-in Hybrid.31

The memorandum described intended work on aftermarket equipment, new-vehicle integration, international standardisation, and prospective pilots in Japan, the United States, and/or the European Union.31 It stated that later detailed and product-specific agreements, including intellectual-property and budget terms, remained contemplated, and that the MOU would expire on 31 March 2025 unless superseded.31 The record establishes an Israeli technical assessment and an intended development programme, but not an Israeli commercial deployment, Israeli-government customer, military or security application, commercial volume, charging performance, production launch, or completed pilot.31

Electreon’s 2024 annual report describes Toyota and DENSO as strategic partners, reports a wireless-charging road deployment at DENSO’s Japanese headquarters, and states that collaboration continued during the reporting year on existing and future private vehicles, with more than 60 joint patent applications submitted during that period.32 Electreon’s current product page continues to identify Toyota Motor Corporation and DENSO among automakers with which it has joined forces, while an Infineon partner-network description also names Toyota and DENSO.33, 34 These company representations support continued public identification of the relationship, but do not establish the MOU’s legal continuation after its stated expiry, a Toyota production programme, patent ownership or grants, a model launch, or a current commercial deployment.32, 33, 34

No public evidence identified in this bounded review of a Toyota Motor Corporation deployment of Aurora Labs technology, or of Aurora Labs’ use by Israeli state, military, intelligence, police, prison, settlement, or occupied-territory bodies.5, 6 Toyota Tsusho’s relationship remains separately identified because the reviewed records support associated-company status rather than Toyota Motor Corporation consolidated-subsidiary status.1, 5, 6, 3, 4

Toyota’s Israeli consumer-facing site states that Union Motors has been the official Toyota vehicle marketer in Israel since 1991 and describes 33 authorised agencies as privately owned.35 This supports an authorised distributor and dealer relationship, rather than establishing in that source that Union Motors is a Toyota Motor Corporation subsidiary.35 Toyota Motor Europe’s published geographic remit includes Israel.36

No public evidence identified of a Toyota-operated Israeli R&D centre, Israeli academic co-development arrangement, or significant Toyota–Israeli-institution patent or licensing agreement beyond Electreon’s self-reported joint-patent-application count, for which individual applications were not reviewed.30, 29, 32, 17

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Toyota’s corporate-governance disclosure states that it has no parent company and no controlling shareholder.37 As of 31 March 2025, the largest disclosed holder was The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. at 13.84%, while Toyota Industries Corporation held 9.14%; the disclosure does not identify beneficial owners behind the custodian-bank holding.37

Toyota’s 17 June 2026 shareholder-meeting resolution identifies the current directors as Akio Toyoda, Kenta Kon, Hiroki Nakajima, Yoichi Miyazaki, Shigeaki Okamoto, Kumi Fujisawa, George Olcott, Christopher P. Reynolds, Masahiko Oshima, and Hiromi Osada.38 Akio Toyoda is Chairman and Representative Director, while Kenta Kon is President and Representative Director; Nakajima and Miyazaki are Executive Vice Presidents and Representative Directors.39, 38 Toyota’s executive profile states that Kon became Toyota’s CEO in April 2026 and President and Representative Director in June 2026.40

The 2026 shareholder-meeting notice records 24,099,025 Toyota shares held by Akio Toyoda and 73,932 held by Kenta Kon.41 It lists Akio Toyoda’s concurrent roles as Chairman of Toyota Fudosan, a DENSO board member scheduled to retire in June 2026, Representative Director of ROOKIE Racing, and Chairman of Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team.41 The reviewed director materials also list concurrent roles for other directors, including Hiroki Nakajima’s commercial-vehicle entities, Shigeaki Okamoto’s Japan Tobacco chairmanship, and Kumi Fujisawa’s roles at the Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies, Shizuoka Financial Group, and Mercari.41

No public evidence identified in the reviewed Toyota filings, official biographies, Toyota Tsusho records, credible reports, and targeted searches of investments, board roles, advisory roles, or contracts by the named Toyota directors or executives involving Israeli AI, cyber, surveillance, biometric, cloud, or military-technology companies.39, 41, 26, 38, 40, 3, 4 Jim Adler’s disclosed Intuition Robotics board role is a Toyota Ventures representative role, and he is not listed as a Toyota Motor Corporation director in the reviewed current board materials.26, 38 These disclosure- and search-scoped findings do not exclude undisclosed personal investments, family-office holdings, private funds, foundations, or advisory arrangements.41, 26, 38, 40

Toyota Motor Corporation was not named in the reviewed full-text check of the 2023 OHCHR settlement-business database update or the annexes to the 2025 A/HRC/60/19 update.27, 42 A/HRC/60/19 states that its update covered only a portion of enterprises under review, so this document-scoped absence does not establish broader absence of settlement-related activity.27

Toyota was not named in the reviewed full-text check of the UN Special Rapporteur’s A/HRC/59/23 report, including its technology discussion.28 This is a document-scoped absence rather than a finding that Toyota has no relevant relationship.28

DBIO’s 2025 report identifies Toyota as covered by Who Profits and AFSC and attributes its vehicle-related account to those organisations.21 Who Profits maintains a Toyota Motor Corporation profile identifying Union Motors as Toyota’s official vehicle distributor in Israel and Union Industrial Vehicle as distributor of Toyota forklifts and warehouse equipment, but the distributorship agreements were not independently verified in the reviewed material.12

No public evidence identified of an organised campaign specifically alleging Toyota digital-technology provision to Israeli state bodies or occupied territories, or of a documented Toyota response to such a campaign.13, 14, 28, 21 no public evidence identified of regulatory inquiries, court actions, export-control proceedings, sanctions investigations, or procurement findings involving Toyota technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.13, 14, 28, 21

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094517/000119312526264811/d101983d20f.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  2. https://global.toyota/en/company/profile/overview/ ↩

  3. https://www.toyota-tsusho.com/english/ir/shareholders/outline.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://www.toyota-tsusho.com/ir/faq/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://www.toyota-tsusho.com/english/press/detail/200923_004682.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  6. https://www.auroralabs.com/about-us ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  7. https://ir.mobileye.com/news-releases/news-release-details/zf-and-mobileye-safety-technology-chosen-toyota ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  8. https://press.zf.com/press/en/media/media_26817.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  9. https://ir.mobileye.com/static-files/3fa7bb55-04d7-43f7-891e-bd81e3052e78 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1910139/000110465926014300/mbly-20251227x10k.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  11. https://global.toyota/en/detail/17737114 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  12. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4175 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4175/ar ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  14. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/toyota ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  15. https://www.toyota.com/privacyvts/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  16. https://www.gov.il/en/pages/_bpress_20102022 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  17. https://woven.toyota/en/company/profile/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. https://www.mobileye.com/privacy-policy/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  19. https://static.mobileye.com/website/corporate/esg/esg_report_2024.pdf ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.mobileye.com/products/ ↩ ↩2

  21. https://dontbuyintooccupation.org/reports/dont-buy-into-occupation-report-2025/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  22. https://www.intuitionrobotics.com/post/intuition-robotics-raises-25m ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  23. https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/43359087.html ↩ ↩2

  24. https://toyota.ventures/portfolio.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  25. https://d11k6pweekc5r2.cloudfront.net/4fc335af47b5f95e26a8020ed3401146/common/archives/en/files/press/attach/20250909_release_en.pdf?1757028903= ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  26. https://www.toyota.ventures/?stream=top ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  27. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  28. https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g25/094/40/pdf/g2509440.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  29. https://global.toyota/pages/global_toyota/ir/library/annual/2025_001_integrated_en.pdf ↩ ↩2

  30. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094517/000119312525142326/d925022d20f.htm ↩ ↩2

  31. https://ir.electreon.com/image/Announcement_MOU_with_TOYOTA_and_DENSO_-_English_translation_-_April_4th.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  32. https://electreon.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Electreon-Wireless-Ltd-Translation-annual-report-English-2024.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  33. https://electreon.com/products/ev-kit/ ↩ ↩2

  34. https://www.infineon.com/press-release/2025/infgip202512-033 ↩ ↩2

  35. https://www.toyota.co.il/discover-toyota/toyota-in-israel ↩ ↩2

  36. https://global.toyota/pages/fact-data/fact-data_001_08_en.pdf ↩

  37. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094517/000119312525142314/d53506dex991.htm ↩ ↩2

  38. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1094517/000119312526274877/d70358dex991.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  39. https://global.toyota/en/company/profile/executives/ ↩ ↩2

  40. https://global.toyota/en/company/profile/executives/kenta_kon.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  41. https://global.toyota/pages/global_toyota/ir/stock/2026_shareholders_meeting_convocation_en.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  42. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩