Palestinians Subject to ‘Omnipresent’ Facial Recognition, Amnesty Report Finds
presented with a color-coded system informing them whether to let someone pass or stop them for questioning, according to the reportautomatically enrolled in the ever-growing database of faces, the report says
“In addition to the constant threat of excessive physical force and arbitrary arrest, Palestinians must now contend with the risk of being tracked by an algorithm, or barred from entering their own neighborhoods based on information stored in discriminatory surveillance databases,” Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said. “This is the latest illustration of why facial recognition technology, when used for surveillance, is incompatible with human rights.
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