Biometrics and counter-terrorism: Case study of Israel/Palestine | Privacy International - 2021
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A case study illustrating the use and looming dangers of collection and use of biometrics in the name of counter-terrorism.
In Israel/Palestine, the Israeli government has been deploying biometrics, including cutting-edge facial recognition technology, in the name of counter-terrorism. The Israeli state routinely surveils and severely restricts Palestinians’ freedom of movement using myriad technologies, including biometrics, which result in furthering the policies of systemic segregation. Since many Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, they have little control over the way their sensitive data is turned against them.
This report was compiled by Keren Weitzberg, a tech and migration researcher, in collaboration with Privacy International.#Biometrics #FacialRecognition #Palestine #Apartheid #Report
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Israel Is Using a Vast Network of Biometric Cameras to Terrorize Palestinians - Truthout – June 2023
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The facial recognition surveillance system violates Palestinians’ human rights to freedom of movement and privacy.
Israel is deepening its system of apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories by using artificial intelligence-powered biometric facial recognition technology to track and restrict the movements of Palestinian people.
Facial recognition technology identifies and categorizes people on the basis of their physical features, including race, ethnicity, gender, age and disability status.#Israel #Palestine #Apartheid #Technology #FacialRecognition #surveillance #AI #Biometrics
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The Palestine Laboratory & Surveillance Capitalism
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urnalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the 'Start-up Nation'. From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal Khashoggi's phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown. Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe's most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.#Apartheid #Technology #Palestine #Book #AIA
Israel's arms and spyware: Used on Palestinians, sold to the world | Middle East Eye – 2023
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Countries flocking to Israel to buy weapons and surveillance equipment seem happy to ignore that they've been lethally tried and tested in the 'Palestine laboratory'
This admiration for Israel is both unsurprising and disturbing. The praise for Israel almost always completely ignores its occupation of Palestinian territory - one of the longest in modern times - and the ways in which this colonial project is implemented.
When Taiwan, Ukraine or any other country looks to Israel for innovation, it’s a highly selective gaze which completely disappears the more than five million Palestinians under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.#Palestine #Technology #Apartheid #business
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: The Case of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians - ArabCenterDC - 2023 - - > Video
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Arab Center Washington DC (ACW) organized a webinar titled, “Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: The Case of Israeli Surveillance of Palestinians.” Panelists were: Rasha Abdul Rahim, Director of Amnesty Tech at Amnesty International; Sophia Goodfriend, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Duke University; Mona Shtaya, Non-resident Fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP); and Rohan Talbot, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at Medical Aid for Palestinians. Tamara Kharroub, Deputy Executive Director and Senior Fellow at ACW, moderated the event.#Technology #Surveillance
Repression Diplomacy – whoprofits – Flash report | Jun 2021
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This flash report sheds light on Israel’s cybersecurity industry, including the role of the military and military industries, government agencies and academic institutions in the production and marketing of cyber technologies, and examines the ways cyber is mobilized by the state to enhance Israel’s political power and export repression, focusing on the UAE as a case study.#Apartheid #Technology #cyber
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Israeli Occupation: How Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Dell Enable Surveillance and Control in Palestine – June 2023
Who Profits, an Israeli research center documenting the private sector’s links to Israeli occupation, released a report in May on multinational tech companies’ role in facilitating Israel’s human rights violations.
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In September, Israel installed an AI-powered gun at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Now, that same technology has been deployed at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. Across occupied East Jerusalem, you can find surveillance cameras strategically placed on street corners. And throughout the West Bank, Palestinians’ encounters with Israeli soldiers often include not only violence but face-scanning apps designed to capture their personal dataWho Profits, an Israeli research center documenting the private sector’s links to Israeli occupation, released a report in May on multinational tech companies’ role in facilitating Israel’s human rights violations.
The impact of each company ranges, with some overseeing a major project while others provide equipment to a system already in place.#Apartheid #Technology #biometric #IBM #Cisco #Microsoft #Dell #AI
Israel's armed drones are heralding an era of automated killing | 972mag - September 2023
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The Israeli army has been using armed drones for decades to carry out, among other things, extrajudicial executions. But until last year, it was officially forbidden to publish this basic fact in the Israeli media; only on July 20, 2022, did the Israeli military censor change its policy. The longstanding media ban helped to stifle an informed public debate in Israel on the morality of these drones, even as such lively discussions were happening elsewhere in the world, especially around their use by the U.S. military.
A +972 and Local Call investigation reveals three cases — one of them during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, and two during Operation Guardian of the Walls in 2021 — in which nine Palestinian non-combatants, including five children, were killed as a result of missiles fired from drones.#Drones #Palestine #Apartheid #Technology
🇵🇸 ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza | 972mag
The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals.
These factors, as described by current and former Israeli intelligence members, have likely played a role in producing what has been one of the deadliest military campaigns against Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948.
#Gaza #Genocide #Destruction #Desolation #Infastructure #Technology #AI #AIA #IOF
30/11/2023
The Israeli army’s expanded authorization for bombing non-military targets, the loosening of constraints regarding expected civilian casualties, and the use of an artificial intelligence system to generate more potential targets than ever before, appear to have contributed to the destructive nature of the initial stages of Israel’s current war on the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals.
These factors, as described by current and former Israeli intelligence members, have likely played a role in producing what has been one of the deadliest military campaigns against Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948.
#Gaza #Genocide #Destruction #Desolation #Infastructure #Technology #AI #AIA #IOF
30/11/2023
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🇵🇸 Gaza is a weapons lab for the arms industry w/Antony Loewenstein | The Chris Hedges Report
Whether it's drone technology or the infamous Pegasus spy software, Israel has long developed and refined repressive technologies used by governments around the world by testing them on Palestinians. Antony Loewenstein, journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a deep dive into the disturbing links between Israeli Apartheid, the arms industry, and global repression of civilian populations.
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08/12/2023
Whether it's drone technology or the infamous Pegasus spy software, Israel has long developed and refined repressive technologies used by governments around the world by testing them on Palestinians. Antony Loewenstein, journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a deep dive into the disturbing links between Israeli Apartheid, the arms industry, and global repression of civilian populations.
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#Palestine #Irsael #Arms #AIA #AI #Technology #ArmsTrade #Drones #Book #Author #ArmsIndustry #AnthonyLoewenstein #Surveillance
08/12/2023
🇵🇸 Tom Dawson, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Federation of Journalists, to Ultra Palestine speaking about Israel's targeting of journalists in Gaza: "It seems that Israel has a targeting system supported by artificial intelligence, called Gospel (in Hebrew, HabSoura), which allows for such precise killing and tracks individuals as they return to their homes and workplaces."(
Initial Post/Source on Gospel AI in Gaza and OPT : "A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza | 972mag
‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza | The Guardian
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text source @QudsNen)Initial Post/Source on Gospel AI in Gaza and OPT : "A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza | 972mag
‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza | The Guardian
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🇵🇸 How western Big Tech giants enable Israel's occupation | By Kit Klarenberg
#HewlettPackard, #Motorola, and other western tech conglomerates have been deeply involved in providing the technological infrastructure that supports Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. This is how they profit from the oppression of Palestinians.
This investigation is the second in a series that examines illegal investments by western #corporations in the occupied Palestinian territories. The first investigation can be found here.
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#HewlettPackard, #Motorola, and other western tech conglomerates have been deeply involved in providing the technological infrastructure that supports Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. This is how they profit from the oppression of Palestinians.
This investigation is the second in a series that examines illegal investments by western #corporations in the occupied Palestinian territories. The first investigation can be found here.
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Mapping Israel's defense tech landscape | Ctech
The map highlights companies with dual-use or HLS applications and was validated with the help of subject matter experts and stakeholders from within the ecosystem. The different defense tech sub-sectors included are Combat Equipment and Systems, #UnmannedSystems(#drones), Security & Surveillance Integration, Simulation & Training, Defense #Electronics, C4I, Aircrafts & Avionics, Space components, and infra, Space Exploration, Earth Observation and Communication & Navigation and #Surveillance
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The map highlights companies with dual-use or HLS applications and was validated with the help of subject matter experts and stakeholders from within the ecosystem. The different defense tech sub-sectors included are Combat Equipment and Systems, #UnmannedSystems(#drones), Security & Surveillance Integration, Simulation & Training, Defense #Electronics, C4I, Aircrafts & Avionics, Space components, and infra, Space Exploration, Earth Observation and Communication & Navigation and #Surveillance
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