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Surveillance as a Service: The Global Impact of Israeli "Defense" Technologies on Privacy and Human Rights
There is a growing need for a global stance against the use of technology for oppression. This post delves into the impact of Israeli surveillance technologies in Palestine and how localized instances of its use contribute to widespread acceptance and global adoption of such oppressive practices.
Citizen Lab has spent years uncovering sophisticated spyware from Israeli companies like NSO, which contracts with governments with a long history of imprisoning, murdering and silencing dissidents and surveilling civil society organizations, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE. U.S.-Israeli company Verint, whose products include surveillance cameras and analysis software to monitor and analyze large voice and video data sets, had sold their technology to repressive regimes in Azerbaijan, Indonesia, South Sudan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The export of military systems by Israel reveals a harrowing journey of surveillance technologies from local deployments in Palestine to worldwide distribution, with a disturbing and alarming trend of normalization and acceptance of the grave human rights violations that are committed in the process of their creation and testing.
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