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allegedly plays a part in the chilling program’s implementation, although it appears not to be through any direct collaboration with the company.
The surveillance program reportedly started as a way to search for Israeli hostages in Gaza. However, as often happens with new wartime technology, the initiative was quickly expanded to “root out anyone with ties to Hamas or other militant groups,” according to. The technology is flawed, but Israeli soldiers reportedly haven’t treated it as such when detaining civilians flagged by the system., the program uses tech from the private Israeli company Corsight.
But an officer in Israel’s Unit 8200 learned that, in reality, it often struggled with grainy, obscured or injured faces. According to the official, Corsight’s tech included false positives and cases where an accurately identified Palestinian was incorrectly flagged as having Hamas ties.that its military used Google Photos to supplement Corsight’s tech.
Engadget emailed Google for a statement, but we haven’t heard back from them at the time of publication. We’ll update this story if we get a response.The NYT he was pulled aside at a military checkpoint in northern Gaza as his family tried to flee to Egypt. He was then allegedly handcuffed and blindfolded, and then beaten and interrogated for two days before finally being returned. He said soldiers told him before his release that his questioning had been a “mistake.”scribe said he has no connection to Hamas and wasn’t aware of an Israeli facial recognition program in Gaza.
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