...This report highlights the negative human rights implications and ethical concerns surrounding the use of biometrics for counterterrorism, focusing on the dangers of unlawful surveillance, limitations to the right to movement, and the exacerbation of racial and religious inequality via automated decision making.

The Israeli government has made significant strides in the use of biometric technologies for the purposes of routine identification and authentication, border crossing, and perhaps most alarmingly, surveillance of public spaces and predictive risk assessment. Its tactics show how biometrics deployed in the name of counter-terrorism can normalize conditions of segregation and military occupation...

...Within the occupied territory, the most evident use of facial recognition technology is at recently upgraded fixed checkpoints in the West Bank, which control the movement of people in and out of the West Bank...

...According to Who Profits, the Israeli conglomerate C. Mer Group installed and maintains Mabat 2000, which uses hardware from a number of companies, including VideoTec, a private Italian company; Dahua Technology, a public Chinese company; and Evron Systems Ltd., a private Israeli company. The watchdog group has also documented the use of Sony cameras at Bab Al Amud...