Life or Death: What happens when tech companies enter the battlefield

Now more than ever, civilians pay the costly price of war. Civilians living through wars are highly dependent on the digital world, for everything from access to water, electricity, medical care, and humanitarian actors. Around the world, the ICRC is witnessing how privately owned and operated products and services - like cloud computing services, electronic health record systems and phone apps for emergency services - are vulnerable to cyber operations, potentially resulting in the denial or disruption of civilian access to essential services. This new animated video from the ICRC explains how civilians can become especially vulnerable to the loss of these services when a technology company’s products and services are shared between civilians and militaries.