The author and anyone else absolutley have the right to criticize any government for making bad decisions. You can only justify so much in the name of national security. Basic fairness, liberties and human dignity are not something any government (even and especially the US) has the right to sacrifice in the name of any kind of security. German concentration camps also were for national security against the "jews" who supposedly were responsible for so much harm in their society as were japanese internment camps in the US.
There is absolutely no vote that took place where citizens were provided with both sides of the argument with factual and counterfactual data (and not scary propaganda)
For example, regarding 3), can you tell us where those systems are being used? Regarding 4), what laws do you specifically refer to?
Without that information it's just the author's word ("Google is evil") against yours ("Google is not evil"). Though your word is more aggressive, which doesn't really help your argument.
Right? What was that that they said about this being a "complex, nuanced" discussion? :)
If by “net benefits” you mean “helps in many cases but sacrifices a few people due to false positives”, then I see your point.
But you never really said why the author was wrong. You just expanded your critique of the author himself.
The author has valid concerns, and one doesn’t need to be an AI researcher to know that content analysis AI is woefully unreliable thus far. We see examples nearly every day here on HN where these systems (often Google’s or YouTube’s) have made wrong judgements that defy explanation.
2) The Author has no clue about the capabilities of AI (Google or Amazon).
3) The Author has no clue about where the systems are deployed.
4) The Author has no clue about laws of Israel.
5) The Author has no clue about protections of ordinary citizens for mis-use / abuse of technology from the constitutions.
6) The Author has no clue about long term, net benefits (or harm) to the society not only from the current state, but potential continuous innovation that will happen increasing the net benefit of such projects to the society.
7) But more importantly, the author sitting in his comfortable chair living a privileged life, has the audacity to preach how Isrealis should ignore threat to their lives and sovereignty so that they can satisfy someone's arbitrary judgement of things that they are clueless about.
I can understand as a global citizen, if they want to pass certain law to protect privacy of individuals. But that is not the theme of the post. The post is literally about "Big Corp Evil". Any idiot can write that post.