Volunteers operate 'civilian war room' as they work with facial recognition software to gather any available information on whereabouts of the over 220 people seized by terrorists
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Touted as a tool to fight violent crime in Arab communities, cameras could be deployed in public spaces with minimal oversight; bill also okayed by Justice Ministry legal adviser

Legislation co-sponsored by Yariv Levin and Itamar Ben Gvir will allow police to use monitoring systems to 'prevent, thwart or uncover serious crimes'

IDF says it carries out 'necessary security, intelligence operations'; human rights group says basic rights violated; activist laments tech not used to find Jewish attackers

‘Rather than overcoming our biases for assessing ages, AI is actually exaggerating the same biases,’ says author of peer-reviewed research

Google engineer develops algorithm to identify lost faces in WWII photos as part of Numbers to Names project

Dany Tirza says his company aims to enable police to scan crowds and detect suspects in real time, even if their faces are obscured

Washington Post details how Blue Wolf technology is used to screen Palestinians in West Bank city, with soldiers incentivized to take photos of residents

Conventional cosmetics applied to the most identifiable areas of the face results in 20 test subjects being detected just 1.22% of the time in a real-world scenario

AnyVision system touted as improving security and preventing crime, but social rights activists say practice infringes on privacy, could hurt marginalized groups