Sheera Frenkel: This story took me months to report out. Israel is running a expansive and experimental facial recognition program in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/t...

This story took me months to report out. Israel is running a expansive and experimental facial recognition program in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/t...

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gazawww.nytimes.com The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.

such an important story, sheera. amazing reporting. 🙏

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Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gazawww.nytimes.com The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.

Deeply grateful for your excellent reporting. This is additionally meaningful to all those who study Uyghur facial-recognition software implemented across Xinjiang by faraway Beijing.

Out of curiosity, would this program be legal to use on full Israeli citizens in, say, Tel Aviv?

That’s a good question, and Israel is currently debating this.

Oh boy can’t wait to see how they make this into an act of pure cruelty. Then we will get to see American police use it for blatant racism since it was probably DOD developed.

Probably Israeli developed. More spy tech, facial recognition software, etc comes out of Israel than just about anywhere, other than perhaps China. US LEOs routinely buy it from the Israeli firms already, and abuse it already.

And the article confirms it: "the cyber-intelligence division Unit 8200, relies on technology from Corsight, a private Israeli company, four intelligence officers said"

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To what end? It's not as if they're intending on anyone there survivi- oh. Oh, I get it

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