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Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by wanderingmagus@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I understood it, and what I'm trying to say is: Unlike in most places, this technology isn't going to be used even ostensibly to maintain law and order; it's gonna be used for genocide. Again, think of the FBI and the Wehrmacht using the same technology. Both are bad, but one is clearly a lot worse. That's why this is cause for concern.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

If they want genocide, what do they need the face recognition for?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Genocide doesn't mean wiping them all out, but that aside it's so they can enforce their reign of terror in the meantime. And because they later sell these technologies as "battle-tested".

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ehhm actually Genocide exactly means wiping them all out.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago

Then the Holocaust, Armenian genocide, Holodomor and Cambodian genocide weren't genocides. Good to know. Neither was the American and Canadian genocide of Native Americans.

You should read the UN's definition of genocide first.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

That’s like asking why the US military would lean heavily on its intelligence apparatus while operating in some developing country with 0.01% of the military power.

Knowledge is power, and it gives you options. Maybe the surveillance helps them find high priority targets faster. Maybe it saves an Israeli life or two. Maybe all they care about is killing Palestinians, and their surveillance lets them see population movements in real time.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

To commit the genocide efficienctly