Ex-Israeli soldiers say the country built a “Facebook for Palestinians” over the last two years to monitor Palestinians through facial recognition tech
HEBRON, West Bank — The Israeli military has been conducting a broad surveillance effort in the occupied West Bank …
Washington Post Elizabeth Dwoskin
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Discussion
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@omarsshakir
Omar Shakir
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Breaking: @washingtonpost investigation exposes massive Israeli facial recognition program—Blue Wolf—that matches exclusively Palestinian faces to database & flashes color-coded instructions on whether to detain them. “Facebook for Palestinians.” Apartheid https://www.washingtonp…
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@chrismessina
@chrismessina
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Ah, that might explain why @meta né Facebook dropped its face surveillance program. https://www.techmeme.com/... /by @lizzadwoskin #privacy https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@diaamahmoud
@diaamahmoud
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The @washingtonpost reports that the Israeli zionist army is using facial recognition technology for smartphones called “Blue Wolf” designed to track Palestinians in the #WestBank. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@shahidforchange
Shahid Buttar
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Civil liberties violations harm not only people & communities, but also pave the pathway for advancing authoritarianism. Face surveillance tech is biased and dangerous. That's why we pushed San Francisco to ban municipal agencies—including police—from using it. We won in 2019. ht…
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@carolecadwalla
Carole Cadwalladr
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This is so grim https://twitter.com/...
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@snowden
Edward Snowden
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I once warned that the architecture of oppression was near. It has arrived. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@m7mdkurd
Mohammed El-Kurd
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“Soldiers competed in photographing Palestinians, with prizes for the most pictures collected by each unit... [The database] contains profiles of virtually every Palestinian in the West Bank, including a “security rating” for each person.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@glcarlstrom
Gregg Carlstrom
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“To build the database used by Blue Wolf, [Israeli] soldiers competed last year in photographing Palestinians, including children and the elderly, with prizes for the most pictures collected by each unit.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@yun_aus
Yun Jiang
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Similar to what China is doing in Xinjiang...yet I expect silence from Australia on this https://twitter.com/...
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@aj_iraqi
Amjad Iraqi
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When Palestinians say they are Israel's ‘laboratory’ for surveillance and weapons technologies, they mean it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@shepherds4good
@shepherds4good
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Much like “making the desert bloom”, the Israeli myth of the “start-up nation” is premised on the erasure of the indigenous and an overarching policy to monetize the Palestinian bodies that remain. https://twitter.com/...
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@docmattmoudi
@docmattmoudi
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This cannot go unchecked. Palestinians are being treated as lab experiments for the techno-carceral fantasies of the military, prison, and border-surveillance industrial complex. We must BAN facial recognition and #FreePalestine #BanTheScan https://twitter.com/...
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@rasha_abdul
@rasha_abdul
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#Israel has escalated the surveillance of Palestinians with a facial recognition program in West Bank. It is so extensive that one former soldier described it as the Israeli army's secret “Facebook for Palestinians.” (nb: it is not connected to Fbook) https://www.washingtonpost.c…
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@unpressed
@unpressed
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Aided and abetted by American tax dollars. https://twitter.com/...
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@robertjbateman
Robert Bateman
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2021 is the year that the facial recognition cat emerged fully out of the bag. Hard to see regulation catching up at this point. https://twitter.com/...
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@davidparis
Paris
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It's almost as though these dystopian horror stories are built into this particular technology hmm https://twitter.com/...
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@ha_matar
Haggai Matar
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Israel is creating a little China in the West Bank, with army units sent to photograph hundreds of Palestinians a week and feed their information into a massive biometric database combining facial recognition, personal information and family histories https://www.washingtonpost.c…
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@btselem
@btselem
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This dystopian future is your present life if you are a Palestinian living under Israeli apartheid. A must read. Kudos @BtSIsrael https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
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@martinkonecny
@martinkonecny
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“Total violation of privacy of an entire people.” Israel's use of surveillance and facial-recognition appear to be among the most elaborate deployments of such technology by a country seeking to control a subject population https://twitter.com/...