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Israeli Occupation: How Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Dell Enable Surveillance and Control in Palestine – June 2023
Who Profits, an Israeli research center documenting the private sector’s links to Israeli occupation, released a report in May on multinational tech companies’ role in facilitating Israel’s human rights violations.
#Apartheid #Technology #biometric #IBM #Cisco #Microsoft #Dell #AI
In September, Israel installed an AI-powered gun at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Now, that same technology has been deployed at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. Across occupied East Jerusalem, you can find surveillance cameras strategically placed on street corners. And throughout the West Bank, Palestinians’ encounters with Israeli soldiers often include not only violence but face-scanning apps designed to capture their personal dataWho Profits, an Israeli research center documenting the private sector’s links to Israeli occupation, released a report in May on multinational tech companies’ role in facilitating Israel’s human rights violations.
The impact of each company ranges, with some overseeing a major project while others provide equipment to a system already in place.#Apartheid #Technology #biometric #IBM #Cisco #Microsoft #Dell #AI
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🇵🇸How Cisco Quietly Became Part of Israel’s Military and Surveillance Infrastructure | Boycat Times
Most people have never thought about #Cisco.But if you search online for “boycott Cisco”, “Cisco Israel”, or “Cisco #Palestine,” you will quickly find a growing controversy surrounding the company.
Cisco, one of the largest internet infrastructure companies in the world, has been accused by human rights researchers and #activists of providing #technology used in Israeli military #networks, #surveillance systems in Jerusalem, and data infrastructure connected to the war in #Gaza.
These claims have led the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (#BDS) movement to list Cisco as an official boycott target.Cisco does not build weapons.
It builds the internet’s plumbing.
The routers, switches, servers, and communication systems that move data around the world.Hospitals rely on it. Universities rely on it..
Microsoft, IBM, Cisco And Dell Enable Surveillance And Control In Palestine
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Most people have never thought about #Cisco.But if you search online for “boycott Cisco”, “Cisco Israel”, or “Cisco #Palestine,” you will quickly find a growing controversy surrounding the company.
Cisco, one of the largest internet infrastructure companies in the world, has been accused by human rights researchers and #activists of providing #technology used in Israeli military #networks, #surveillance systems in Jerusalem, and data infrastructure connected to the war in #Gaza.
These claims have led the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (#BDS) movement to list Cisco as an official boycott target.Cisco does not build weapons.
It builds the internet’s plumbing.
The routers, switches, servers, and communication systems that move data around the world.Hospitals rely on it. Universities rely on it..
Microsoft, IBM, Cisco And Dell Enable Surveillance And Control In Palestine
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🇵🇸🇮🇷The proliferation of AI-enabled military technology in the Middle East | ISS org
The genocide in #Gaza, #Palestine was described in the Israeli press as ‘the world’s first AI war’, integrating a number of new artificial intelligence (#AI) systems into military technologies, from new target-identification processes to enhanced weaponry. Since then, the integration of AI into military #technologies has progressed in leaps and bounds, with countries across the region seeking to make AI a part of their military architecture.
Much of this has involved partnerships with commercial entities, from Israeli start-ups to big-tech corporations including #Amazon, #Google and #Microsoft. As these entities have shown a tendency to circumvent their self-professed human-rights commitments and due-diligence obligations, greater regulation will be required to protect civilian lives and infrastructure during armed conflict
#Iran #Unit8200 #Amazon #Cisco
The genocide in #Gaza, #Palestine was described in the Israeli press as ‘the world’s first AI war’, integrating a number of new artificial intelligence (#AI) systems into military technologies, from new target-identification processes to enhanced weaponry. Since then, the integration of AI into military #technologies has progressed in leaps and bounds, with countries across the region seeking to make AI a part of their military architecture.
Much of this has involved partnerships with commercial entities, from Israeli start-ups to big-tech corporations including #Amazon, #Google and #Microsoft. As these entities have shown a tendency to circumvent their self-professed human-rights commitments and due-diligence obligations, greater regulation will be required to protect civilian lives and infrastructure during armed conflict
#Iran #Unit8200 #Amazon #Cisco