Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip

Way easier than having them wear an armband.

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."

It will be in Israel soon too. Netanyahu is using this genocide to cement a dictatorship by claiming it's all necessary to fight the war, but it's not really believed that he'll take his special war powers away from himself once it's over. He's already tried to destroy the judiciary. Make no mistake, genocide is not the only way he's taking pages out of Hitler's playbook.

While the US and the USSR scrambled for Nazi scientists post WWII for their Air and Space programs, it seems that Israel was grabbing a different kind of Nazi for consorting work.

Photoprism on default settings merged like 5 people into one because it was all trained on a predominant NA population.

Google photos has had similar results even with tuning the algorithm.

So best case they throw innocent people in jail without trial and worst case they just continue to shoot innocent people anyway.

I see that the deadline for skynet in 2029 is more realistic every day

This is all sorts of fucked up and wrong but lets face it... it's far from the worst thing happening in Gaza right now.

The west is supporting Israel commit genocide in Gaza so that they will acquire better battleground tested surveillance technology.

Facial Recognition is not ready for this level of use unless you're just looking to create chaos, lock up innocent people, and generally create more enemies. But then they currently have a torture and release program so they're familiar with that already.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

Corsight, which has boasted that its technology can accurately identify people even if less than 50 percent of their face is visible, used these photos to build a facial recognition tool Israeli officers could use in Gaza.

To further build out its database — and identify potential targets — the Israeli military set up checkpoints equipped with facial recognition cameras along major roads Palestinian used to flee south.

One officer told the Times that Google Photos could identify people even when only a small portion of their face was visible, making it better than other tools, including Corsight.

According to the Forbes report, Corsight’s technology was able to take images of people “whose features had been impacted by physical trauma, and find a match amongst photos sent in by concerned family members.”

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Cunts.

Does it also measure the diameter of their heads for statistical purposes?

Is there anything Israel isn't a scumbag about?

This wouldn't be necessary if Hamas wore uniforms.

Without their consent? How could they. Of course everywhere else police use face recognition with consent, right? Right??

Well it makes sense. Hamas often pose as civilians to get the enemy off guard and then pull out an RPG.

Israel needs some way to be able to pull them out of a crowd. Especially if civilians are to be protected.

Anyway it's not like most western countries aren't already doing this, they just haven't told us yet. But there's an awful lot of cameras around Europe now and I'm sure they must have facial recognition tech.

And of course there's China who doesn't hide it it all.

Eventually it will be worldwide if it isn't already.

Edit: I'm not saying I endorse it, it's terrible, but my point is that they can kind of justify it with their allegation that Hamas dresses as civilians. Also that, very sadly, this is a worldwide trend which will most likely only get worse because the "elites" behind all this world system (and the genocide in Gaza) seem to be succeeding in pushing through their plans.

The US uses facial recognition when I enter into the country. Wonder if it's the same tech.

Israel is using it to track terrorists and blow them up. Hopefully they make quick work of it. That's probably how they spotted some of the 10/7 crew they've rounded up.

Wouldn't be necessary if Hamas didn't violate the Geneva convention every chance they got.

Israel has a right to defend its self i think the missile atacks have to end its been going on for decades so palistine has been asking to be invaded especially after they invaded and started killing civilians kidnapped