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Re:The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed i... by throway23423 on Monday February 16, 2026 @11:21AM (#47036918)
I doubt whatever facial recognition trained over 6 million odd Palestinians (plus 2 million Israeli Palestinians) would trump similar offerings from competitors like Hikvision trained on data of 1.4 billion Chinese.

edit : i think their tech is overhyped. Remember the signal-chats debacle last year where the National Security Advisor was photographed using a modified client of Signal by Israeli company TeleMessage. And immediately after, TeleMessage was hacked, and it was revealed that all the chats were transmitted and stored in plain-text. They still managed to get their backup-spyware installed at the highest levels of the US government and military. It looks like they have great sales teams.

https://archive.is/0qjVI

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Re:The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed i... by yes_really on Monday February 16, 2026 @12:54PM (#47037991)
A facial recognition model trained on one genotype will behave poorly on another genotype. For detecting e.g. white and middle eastern faces, this Israeli model should perform better than the one trained on Chinese people
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