SurveillanceHigh
Facial Recognition Smart Phone App 'Blue Wolf' Reportedly Monitored Palestinians in the West Bank
- Occurred
- Jun 1, 2016
- Published
- Aug 22, 2019
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A surveillance program involving facial recognition and algorithmic recommendations, Blue Wolf, was reportedly deployed by the Israeli military to monitor Palestinians in the West Bank.
Developers
- AnyVision
Deployers
- Israel Defense Forces
- Government of Israel
Harmed parties
- Palestinians residing in the West Bank
- Palestinians
- General public
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition deployment for mass monitoring of a specific demographic constitutes significant surveillance harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8