Your A.I. Security Containment Perimeters Built By Israel - Tested On Palestinians and Implemented In America - Acceleration of Technological Expediency "Trumps" Moral and Ethical Questions

Ed.'s note: In previously outlined material we have begun to look at how Israel is becoming the world technological powerhouse "startup nation" and that all technological advances lead back to Israel. If you have not taken the time to read this material you can start with A "Deviant Philosopher" - Coronavirus Big Data Collection - The "Shadow President" - You Will Never See Israel Again In the Same Light After This - Big Tech Data Mining and a Massive Transfer of Wealth to get caught up before reading the republished Seattle Times article below. While you're A.I. security containment perimeters are being built by surveillance capitalism in Israel for you, understand that Microsoft depends on Israel tech firms for its R&D. So as Bill Gates is becoming the "Vicar of Vaccine", he handed Microsoft over to Israel where in Israel the operating system for Microsoft's Windows were developed. Microsoft confirmed this but never specified just exactly what components of Windows are "Israeli." What do the world's top ten tech firms have in common? Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Intel, Oracle, Samsung and Baidu (Chinese search engine; see: PM Netanyahu Meets Founder and CEO of Baidu) all including the Chinese are doing mission-critical work in Israel that's core to their businesses and systems. Put this into context: Microsoft has the $10 billion contract for the Pentagon's cloud computing and Microsoft Israel will build it: Pentagon Watchdog Finds No Evidence That White House Influenced $10 Billion JEDI Deal

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Source: The Seattle Times

A tale of two AI cities:

The Seattle connection to Israel's surveillance network

April 18, 2020 | By Melissa Hellmann

The Qalandia checkpoint leads from the West Bank to Jerusalem and Israel. According to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Unit, in June 2019, 1,295,893 Palestinian employees entered to work in Israel out of 2,113,061 total Palestinians, and the office issued 83.354 entering permits to Palestinians. (Heidi Levine/SIPA Press)

QALANDIA CHECKPOINT, West Bank – For tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank, the daily voyage into Israel for work, family visits and other business begins at this checkpoint near Jerusalem, reminiscent of a passage through a prison portal. Concrete walls surround the gray building at the Qalandia crossing that looks part transit terminal, part military bunker. Inside, families squeeze large suitcases through a labyrinthine hallway to reach a set of high-tech turnstiles armed with something as controversial as the checkpoint itself: facial recognition scanners.

The A.I. Age | This 12-month series of stories explores the social and economic questions arising from the fast-spreading uses of artificial intelligence. The series is funded with the help of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative. Seattle Times editors and reporters operate independently of our funders and maintain editorial control over the coverage.

On a recent late morning, a scanner's green light washed over Khaled Habyeab's face as he placed his magnetic ID card on a reader. The gate's clear doors swished open. Like other Palestinians traveling to Israel for work, doctor's visits or tourism, the Central West Bank resident must carry an ID card and a permit that lists his reason for visiting. Habyeab's clean record, devoid of arrests and political activity, allowed him to receive a biometrics card from Israel's Civil Administration office the same day he applied, the 30-year-old restaurant manager said. He planned to spend his day off touring Tel Aviv with his wife.

1 of 2 Khaled Habyeab, 30, as uses his biometric permit to prompt an automatic gate to open as he crosses the Qalandiya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem on February 25, 2020. Israel upgraded its West Bank checkpoints with facial recognition technology to verify Palestinians’ identities as they cross into Israel. The new system is helping to shorten the amount of time it takes to cross the checkpoints, but the use of the technology is drawing criticism about the role the controversial technology plays in Israel’s military control over Palestinians. (Heidi Levine / for The Seattle Times)

While the facial recognition systems installed at Qalandia and 26 other checkpoints last summer have drawn the ire of human rights advocates, Habyeab remarked on its effectiveness in comparison to the long waits in previous years when security guards manually checked IDs. The checkpoint was once packed with people waiting in a chaotic scene that resembled "chickens going through the chicken [coop]," he said.

Still, the facial recognition scanners serve as a reminder of the ever-present Israeli occupation of the area, Habyeab said through a translator: "There is no freedom."

The facial recognition scanners were developed by Israeli artificial intelligence (AI) security startup AnyVision, which has ties with Redmond-based Microsoft. Microsoft's venture capital fund, M12, came under fire for participating in a $74 million investment in the AI security company last June. AnyVision has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

Seattle and Israel's AI ecosystem have long had close ties, from Microsoft and Amazon's acquisitions of Israeli startups to ongoing academic collaborations. The global expansion of AI surveillance technology has some roots in Israel, with its fingerprints stretching to the U.S. border with Mexico. A 2016 Privacy International report found that Israel boasts the most surveillance firms per capita in the world. In recent weeks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the nation would use counterterrorism measures such as digital surveillance technology to track people with possible exposure to COVID-19.

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