A start-up known as “Israel’s most
high-profile biometric recognition firm” is playing a key role in
monitoring Palestinians at checkpoints in the occupied West Bank,
reported Haaretz.
According to the article, Anyvision
Interactive Technologies “is taking part in two special projects in
assisting the Israeli army in the West Bank”.
One project “involves a system that it has
installed at army checkpoints that thousands of Palestinians pass
through each day on their way to work from the West Bank.”
In a statement in February, the army said
“27 biometric crossings” had been established in the West Bank, as part
of a “wide-ranging” effort to “upgrade” the checkpoints in question.
The second project, however, “is much more confidential”, reported Haaretz,
and “includes facial recognition technology elsewhere in the West Bank,
not just at border crossings”, as “cameras deep inside the West Bank
try to spot and monitor potential Palestinian assailants”.
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