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Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company Corsight to identify people affiliated with Hamas.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is all sorts of fucked up and wrong but lets face it... it's far from the worst thing happening in Gaza right now.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

True, but:

1-It helps them find "terrorists" to blow up, and

2-This isn't going away. Even after this "war" ends what remains of Gaza will be perpetually under surveillance (more than they already are). Even if the war ends today, Gaza just became even more of an open-air concentration camp.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would be amazed if Gaza still exists when this war is over.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't be silly. Of course it will. Some cleaning up, ethnic cleansing and rebuilding and there'll be Gaza Beach, Gaza Hills and many more high value neighborhoods for non-muslims to live in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Christians currently living in Gaza

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what's wrong with hunting down terrorists?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What if they decide you're a terrorist? Governments should not have this power period. Anybody can become an "enemy of the state" at any time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What if I tell you the instant you make a successful protest. Leak information of crimes commited by the government, or threaten some industry interests they'll do that anyways.

They are still hunting down a couple of guy's whose only crimes was to denounce crimes the government did. They call those "whissle blowers".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i don't think it's for that purpose , it's to identify where terrorists are hiding and not label anyone of terrorism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How cute. Is this the first time you've seen a government use terrorism to excuse atrocities?

Sure, I guess you could trust them, but I see no reason to. Do you think this will just stop being used after the conflict? Do you think they aren't using it to target families/friends of people who resist them? Do you think any form of resistance is terrorism? Is Israel using force to induce fear and submission not terrorism?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

i am not telling you to not doubt them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It labeled many people falsely as terrorists and was a waste of time. That's why it got leaked to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing, as long as that’s actually what you’re doing and you are good at doing only that without creating collateral damage.

I don’t think the people upset with the treatment of Gaza got that way by being concerned for the welfare of actual murderous terrorists.