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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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[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 89 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (23 children)

Israel is the type of control-heavy far-right state other dictators wish they could govern, and it's made possible by Western money and technology (I was going to name just the US but my country of Canada, among others, is not blameless either). This news also sucks because there's no way that tech is staying in Israel only. Citizens of the world better brace for convictions via AI facial recognition.

"Our computer model was able to reconstruct this image of the defendant nearly perfectly. It got the hands wrong and one eye is off-center, but otherwise that's clearly them committing the crime."

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

From what I remember, AI facial recognition tech was already being used by police and agencies worldwide, like the FBI, PRC police etc, or am I misinformed? I remember something about Chinese and American facial recognition software.

[–] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I had not read anything like that but a quick search pulled up this story from last September by Wired that supports your post: FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training. "Yet only 5 percent of the 200 agents with access to the technology have taken the bureau’s three-day training course on how to use it, a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) this month reveals." So it sounds like you're right, and also that they are probably inadequately trained even if they complete all 3 days on how to identify people with legal ramifications.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

And I wonder how many of those 95% have already used misapplied AI facial recognition to justify FISA court warrants for ~~stalking~~ investigating ~~random people~~ suspected terrorists?

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