Palestinians Subject to ‘Omnipresent’ Facial Recognition, Amnesty Report Finds

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Palestinians Subject to ‘Omnipresent’ Facial Recognition, Amnesty Report Finds The Israeli military is increasingly deploying experimental new facial recognition software to monitor Palestinians and “supercharge segregation” in the West Bank, according to a new Amnesty International report released Tuesday. Amnesty found that Israeli authorities are using a little-known advanced surveillance tool called “Red Wolf” to monitor and restrict Palestinian residents’ movements across key checkpoints in the region. Palestinians on the ground described the state’s vast and growing web of facial recognition-enabled CCTV cameras surrounding them as “omnipresent” and inescapable. “I’m being watched the whole time,” Nedam, a Palestinian resident of...