WF-B69U6H
Facial Recognition Smart Phone App "Blue Wolf" Monitored Palestinians in West Bank
A controversial surveillance program involving facial recognition and algorithmic recommendation, Blue Wolf, was deployed by the Israeli military to monitor Palestinians in the West Bank.
- Date it happened
- 2016-06-01
- Organisation involved
- the Israel military
- Product, system or model
- "Blue Wolf" takes photos of Palestinians and stores them in a large-scale database. Once an image is captured, Blue Wolf matches that picture to a person in its database. Soldiers' phones will then fl
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