"'The Palestine Laboratory' exposes how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world", 26 November 2023

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... Israel’s export of mass surveillance technologies, tested on Palestinians, is a moneymaker for the country and a valuable tool for willing buyers to monitor their own populations or oppressed minorities.

Israeli tech firm NSO Group — whose founders worked for the IDF’s secretive intelligence arm, Unit 8200 — developed the notorious Pegasus spyware, a sophisticated mobile phone hacking tool. Unit 8200 whistleblowers confessed in 2014 to using the technology to spy on Palestinians in the West Bank. ...

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Israeli start-up AnyVision secretly films Palestinians — the company and the Israeli government will not reveal the cameras’ locations — in the West Bank to train its artificial intelligence and facial recognition systems. ...

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... Mer Security president Chaim Mer admitted that the global success of the company is mainly due to winning a contract in 1999 to install hundreds of cameras in Jerusalem’s Old City to allow police to monitor occupied Palestinians; potential clients could see the surveillance systems in use.

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... the European Union has signed several contracts with state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries and Elbit Systems to supply unmanned drones — developed and tested during many attacks on Gaza — used to track migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea.

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Israeli firm Cellebrite also sells spyware to the EU that hacks refugee’s mobile phones to track their journey and communication history.