Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by lordofgibbons on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:44PM
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Are you seriously equating observing an area using satellites with indiscriminately monitoring everyone's calls, messages, and possibly hacking their devices?
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Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by holmesworcester on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:11PM
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And not in a war zone, even. (West Bank is governed by Israel.)
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by dragonwriter on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:14PM
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The West Bank is occupied by Israel and Israel has overall control, but it is broken up into a whole bunch of tiny administrative regions, some of which are administered by the PA and some of which are administered directly by Israel.
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by babu657 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @05:33PM
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Gee i wonder what happens if Israel just let the west bank be. Wait…i know what will happen
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by tguvot on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:15PM
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Rocket factories, like the one that was discovered week ago https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjbqu9qolx
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by 3form on Thursday September 25, 2025 @04:35PM
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Given lackluster response to the recent attempts of the "democratic" governments to do very much the same to their own citizens, I daresay not many are particularly impressed.
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by pcthrowaway on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:40PM
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Additionally, there is observation AI face tracking of all movements of Palestinians in the West Bank, who live under occupation. While other governments may also conduct monitoring of their citizens to varying degrees, the distinction is that they are monitoring citizens, not using monitoring to enforce military apartheid.
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by Manuel_D on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:47PM
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Militaries do that too. Signals Intelligence has been thing since radios were used by the military. I bet you that in Ukraine the moment you fire up any RF emitter it's showing up on someone's spectrum analyzer. And if it's unencrypted or a broken encryption they'll probably be decoding and logging the transmission.
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by AlecSchueler on Friday September 26, 2025 @05:16AM
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> bet you that in Ukraine the moment you fire up any RF emitter
The assertion was that "every army" is doing it, not that it's happening in active warzones.
Re:Microsoft blocks Israel's use of its tech. in mass survei...
by raxxorraxor on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @07:14AM
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I case of Hezbollah it was very much worth it.