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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] 5 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


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.

Corsight, which has boasted that its technology can accurately identify people even if less than 50 percent of their face is visible, used these photos to build a facial recognition tool Israeli officers could use in Gaza.

To further build out its database — and identify potential targets — the Israeli military set up checkpoints equipped with facial recognition cameras along major roads Palestinian used to flee south.

One officer told the Times that Google Photos could identify people even when only a small portion of their face was visible, making it better than other tools, including Corsight.

According to the Forbes report, Corsight’s technology was able to take images of people “whose features had been impacted by physical trauma, and find a match amongst photos sent in by concerned family members.”


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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Facial Recognition is not ready for this level of use unless you're just looking to create chaos, lock up innocent people, and generally create more enemies. But then they currently have a torture and release program so they're familiar with that already.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well it makes sense. Hamas often pose as civilians to get the enemy off guard and then pull out an RPG.

Israel needs some way to be able to pull them out of a crowd. Especially if civilians are to be protected.

Anyway it's not like most western countries aren't already doing this, they just haven't told us yet. But there's an awful lot of cameras around Europe now and I'm sure they must have facial recognition tech.

And of course there's China who doesn't hide it it all.

Eventually it will be worldwide if it isn't already.

Edit: I'm not saying I endorse it, it's terrible, but my point is that they can kind of justify it with their allegation that Hamas dresses as civilians. Also that, very sadly, this is a worldwide trend which will most likely only get worse because the "elites" behind all this world system (and the genocide in Gaza) seem to be succeeding in pushing through their plans.

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

I don't think anyone would risk that with GDPR.

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

Israel has a right to defend its self i think the missile atacks have to end its been going on for decades so palistine has been asking to be invaded especially after they invaded and started killing civilians kidnapped

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

Does it also measure the diameter of their heads for statistical purposes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't be necessary if Hamas didn't violate the Geneva convention every chance they got.

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