“Israel has maintained its outlaw status by turning Palestine into a laboratory for coercive digital and surveillance technologies,” says Laura Albast from the Institute of Palestinian Studies
reported that its military deployed a facial recognition program to track Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank., which involved a smartphone technology called “Blue Wolf” that captured photos of Palestinians’ faces and matched them to an extensive database described by one soldier as the army’s “Facebook for Palestinians.”
“This situation constitutes a flagrant violation of privacy rights, with soldiers being incentivised to collect as many pictures of Palestinians as possible,” said Saphia Haddad, a Palestinian human rights lawyer based in London. Haddad similarly echoed that Palestinian territories have served as a “testing ground for biometric surveillance technologies” that “Israeli firms profit from.”
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