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

submitted 7 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 7 months ago (1 children)

You cannot look at what’s happening while ignoring the past 600+ years.

600? I mean there were Jews in Palestine then too, and very occasionally unforgiveable things were done to them, but the people who are now running Israel weren't there for any of that. These are people who migrated to Israel less than 100 years ago and their descendants.

[–] Drummyralf@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, just commented on a different post where I said 600 years too. It was an arbitrary number from me, probably misremembering a fact I heard on a podcast about this conflict. The guest on the podcast said something along the lines of "this conflict comes from way before ww2" but I might have misremebered the context or actual years.

Apologies.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I've put together a long list of historical events of the conflict here if you're interested. The concept of Transfer in Zionism goes back to the late 1800s while the dispossession of Palestinians started around the 1920s.