Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

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.

After Oct. 7, Israeli intelligence officers in Unit 8200 turned to that surveillance for information on the Hamas gunmen who breached Israel’s borders. The unit also combed through footage of the attacks from security cameras, as well as videos uploaded by Hamas on social media, one officer said. He said the unit had been told to create a “hit list” of Hamas members who participated in the attack.

Corsight was then brought in to create a facial recognition program in Gaza, three Israeli intelligence officers said.

danekrae,

Why don’t they just make them wear a patch on their clothes, so they’re easy to identify?

Keeponstalin,

The pins needed to patch them are probably considered ‘dual-use,’ like the tent poles and medical equipment in the aid trucks.

FenrirIII,
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The patch should be shiny, so it’s visible

Sarmyth,

Maybe tattoo’s for the people that keep misplacing their patches.

bartolomeo,
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They’ve been doing that in the West Bank for years:

france24.com/…/20211110-how-israel-uses-facial-re…

Linkerbaan,
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This is a bit different than in that the west bank. There they take HQ pictures to Big Brother those people when they get their ID and they present themselves in front of scanners at checkpoints.

Here israel is running AI to find people that show a match from blurry pictures.

They then beat them up and strip them for two days without checking the result first.

According to the soldiers this system is super bad as well which is why they leaked it. They’re just beating up random civilians constantly.

reagansrottencorpse,

Israel should have been created in part of Germany if anywhere. It’s completely asinine that they ran the people already living there off at gunpoint and called it a country. People who had nothing to do with WW2 or the Nazis.

Zehzin,
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Another thing you can blame on the British

nonailsleft,

And the Ottomans

Zehzin,
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We already turned them into furniture you rest your legs on, what are we doing to the Brits?

maynarkh,

They are making it convenient, they started doing the arbitrary borders thing to themselves, like the customs border they now have inside their country

dumpsterlid,

What really scares me is that Ireland was a prototype for british colonialism and the Palestinian genocide is clearly a similar a prototype, and it terrifies me what it is a prototype for.

Everybody who is cool with Palestinians getting slaughtered like this have no idea that this is a pilot project for authoritarian violence that will be administered in the future and everyone should be terrified because virtually everyone will be a target of it.

nondescripthandle,

If it works in Palestine it’s coming to a low income neighborhood near you! And not just the facial recognition program. IDFs been training American cops for decades. It’s going to keep happening.

ghostdoggtv,

They’re gonna start murdering false positives abroad and what the fuck is the west gonna do about it

dumpsterlid,

Cover it up probably

Zehzin,
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Why bother? They already kill people openly with no repercussions.

Linkerbaan,
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Three of the people with knowledge of the program said they were speaking out because of concerns that it was a misuse of time and resources by Israel.

When the military tried identifying the bodies of Israelis killed on Oct. 7, the technology could not always work for people whose faces had been injured. There were also false positives, or cases when a person was mistakenly identified as being connected to Hamas, the officer said.

Probably diagnoses a Hamas positive on every adult male

dumpsterlid,

Wait… what happens if you use the Hamas recognition software on Netanyahu…….?

Linkerbaan,
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If he had Palestinian roots he’d be Hamas. But Netanyahu is a white dude from Poland…

Linkerbaan, (edited )
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Archive link. Also interesting quote:

To supplement Corsight’s technology, Israeli officers used Google Photos, the free photo sharing and storage service from Google, three intelligence officers said. By uploading a database of known persons to Google Photos, Israeli officers could use the service’s photo search function to identify people.

Google’s ability to match faces and identify people even with only a small portion of their face visible was superior to other technology, one officer said. The military continued to use Corsight because it was customizable, the officers said.

A Google spokesman said Google Photos was a free consumer product that “does not provide identities for unknown people in photographs.”

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