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🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 I'm finally able to share the results of an investigation started in the fall of 2021, exposing the use of facial recognition in key areas of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, to automate apartheid against Palestinians. @amnesty shorturl.at/juxE2
@amnesty TL;DR: 1) facial recognition entrenches restrictions on the freedom of movement of Palestinians, bolstering physical restrictions, and making them more permanent; 2) surveillance is part of a coercive environment aimed at forcing Palestinians to leave areas of strategic interest. 
@amnesty In our report, Automated Apartheid, we document how the FR system 'Red Wolf' is part of an ever-growing surveillance network which is entrenching the Israeli government’s control over Palestinians, and which helps to maintain Israel’s system of apartheid. amnesty.org/en/documents/m…
@amnesty Red Wolf is deployed at military checkpoints in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, where it scans Palestinians’ faces and adds them to vast surveillance databases without their consent.
@amnesty In the H2 area of Hebron, we documented how Red Wolf is reinforcing draconian restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of movement, using illegitimately acquired biometric data to monitor and control Palestinians’ movements around the city
@amnesty In occupied East Jerusalem, an illegally annexed city, Israel operates a network of thousands of CCTV cameras across the Old City, known as Mabat 2000.
@amnesty Israeli authorities have been upgrading this system with facial recognition capabilities and give themselves unprecedented powers of surveillance. In a survey of 10 km^2 in Sheikh Jarrah and the Old City, we found 1-2 cameras for every 5 meters walked.
@amnesty As surveillance has increased in tandem with illegal settler activity in neigbourhoods like Silwan, which continues to inflict severe damage to Palestinian homes and communities, resistance is increasingly foreclosed.
@amnesty Palestinians resisting settlement expansions and demolitions of Palestinian homes are exposed to greater levels of surveillance and risk of harassment and arrest.
@amnesty We also documented high-resolution CCTV cameras made by the Chinese company Hikvision installed in residential areas and mounted to military infrastructure; some of these models, come with facial recognition out-of-the-box.
@amnesty Products by Dutch company called TKH Security, in public spaces and attached to police infrastructure. Both companies have products in domains covered by Mabat 2000.
@amnesty This must end. 🛑Today we're calling on companies supplying surveillance technologies powering facial recognition for apartheid to publicly commit to stop doing so immediately 🛑 We are reiterating our call on the state of Israel to dismantle its apartheid against Palestinians.
@amnesty ✊🏽Take action here ✊🏽: banthescan.amnesty.org/opt/#take-acti…
@amnesty We are particularly grateful to the individuals, organizations, activists, and experts who facilitated this research, in particular those willing to share their story in service of this report.
@amnesty We are indebted to our advisory committee of experts and activists, who have acted as a sounding board and remain a fountain of knowledge and inspiration in the fight for human rights. 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽
@amnesty These include, among others: @marwasf , @rohantalbot, @ArielCaine1, and Rune Saugmann Andersen, the Post- Visual Security project at @TampereUni, @BtSIsrael, @7amleh, @ICAHD, @Who_Profits, @Eko_Movement, and @hrw. 🙌🏽 🙌🏽
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