In November 2021 the Washington Post published a stunning exposé on the use of 'Blue Wolf', a new mass surveillance system being operated by soldiers in the West Bank to photograph and collect sensitive personal information on local Palestinians. The story, which was brought to light thanks to several testimonies given by IDF soldiers to Breaking the Silence, represents a massive escalation in Israel's pursuit of control over the Palestinian civilian population in the West Bank, and raises some serious questions on the role of technology within the context of the occupation.
Breaking the Silence

#BlueWolf #RedWolf #Apartheid #Palestine #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #BreakingTheSilence

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How Surveillance Tech is Used to Oppress Palestinians Through #Apartheid - May 2023

The Israeli authorities are using an experimental facial recognition system known as Red Wolf to track Palestinians and automate harsh restrictions on their freedom of movement, Amnesty International said today. In a new report, Automated Apartheid, the organization documents how Red Wolf is part of an ever-growing surveillance network which is entrenching the Israeli government’s control over Palestinians, and which helps to maintain Israel’s system of apartheid. Red Wolf is deployed at military checkpoints in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, where it scans Palestinians’ faces and adds them to vast surveillance databases without their consent.

#Apartheid #RedWolf #ReconnaissanceFaciale #Palestine #Israel #Surveillance #Documentaire

Apple and Google confirm governments spy on users through push notifications

#Push #notifications can reveal private information and governments can essentially access this data if they want.

A US senator has asked the Department of Justice to let #Apple and #Google disclose how governments surveil users through push notifications.
Apple says the federal government stopped it from being transparent about the practice.
Google has also acknowledged the senator’s plea and said it is committed to keeping users informed about government requests for push notification data.

Government agencies have been spying on smartphone users through push notifications sent out by apps, a US senator wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice on December 6.

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Department of Justice to lift any existing restrictions around discussions of push notification surveillance.

“I write to urge the Department of Justice (DOJ) to permit Apple and Google to inform their customers and the general public about demands for smartphone app notification records,” Wyden writes in the letter.

He explains that push notifications pass through a kind of digital post office run by the phone’s operating system providers. “Because Apple and Google deliver push notification data, they can be secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information,” the letter says. This could tell governments how users interact with certain apps, give them access to a notification’s complete text, and disclose some unencrypted content.

Wyden moved the DOJ to allow Apple and Google to be transparent about the demands they receive from governments regarding push notification #surveillance.

Meanwhile, the two companies welcomed Wyden’s letter and acknowledged that push notification surveillance has been happening for a while. Apple even said it was not allowed to disclose government requests for push notification data but will start informing users about it now.

“In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” Apple said in a statement published by Reuters. “Now that this method has become public, we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”

Google also acknowledged the issue and said it shared Wyden’s “commitment to keeping users informed about these requests.” Google’s transparency report already documents governmental requests for users’ push notification data.

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-google-push-notification-surveillance-3392252/

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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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#Palestine #Irsael #Arms #AIA #AI #Technology #ArmsTrade #Drones #Book #Author #ArmsIndustry #AnthonyLoewenstein #Surveillance
08/12/2023

Tech workers protested at #Google offices in SanFrancisco to call for an end to their $1.2 billion contract with israel.

The #AI based “Project #Nimbus” assists #israel in the #surveillance and expansion of settlements.

#ot #why #bds

37C3 - YOU’VE JUST BEEN FUCKED BY PSYOPS | Chaos Computer Club Berlin

How the history of military and government PSYOPS involving #MindControl, UFOs, magic, and remote-control zombies, explains the future of AI and generative media.

As #AI-generated content, social-media influence operations, micro-targeted advertising, and ubiquitous #surveillance have become the norm on the Internet and in the market in general, we have entered an era of PSYOP Capitalism. This is an era of hallucinations designed to transform each of us into a “targeted individual” through the manipulation of perception. This talk explores a secret history of reality-altering #military and #intelligence programs that serve as antecedents to a phantasmagoric present.

CYCLOPS explores the themes of the mind-control and #PSYOPS through an interactive parafictional narrative taking place in the context of an obscure #CIA #CognitiveWarfare program from the early days of the #ColdWar.


Trevor Paglen

🇵🇸 A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad | 2008

Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Hany Abu Assad | 4 minutes

Intent on making a film, a group of young boys don't let limited resources
stand in their way. They decide to go where the cameras are... AbuAssad's
(Paradise Now, Rana's Wedding, Ford Transit) short was produced under the
auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as part of a collection of works by artists from around the world.

#Palestine #OPT #TheWall #Wall #WallOfSeperation #Occupation #WestBank #ShortFilm #Documentary #Fiction #Film #Camera #Surveillance
#Apartheid

#EU set to allow draconian use of #facial #recognition tech, say lawmakers

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ai-facial-recognition-tech-act-late-tweaks-attack-civil-rights-key-lawmaker-hahn-warns/

#stalking #surveillance #biometrics