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The West Bank population is the perfect development platform for this tech. They can't complain or revolt - they're already under occupation! Who else but Israe
by 0_____0 2y ago
The West Bank population is the perfect development platform for this tech. They can't complain or revolt - they're already under occupation! Who else but Israel has such a resource at their disposal?
And unlike other nations that might build these tools for internal use only, it's basically certain that this tech will be sold to e.g. the US.
See: NSO Group, Cellebrite, Paragon, Oosto/Anyvision, Corsight. They've all had or have contracts with US domestic agencies that needed surveillance tech.
- cess11 2y agoIt's more likely the main customers are close by, in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.
- spwa4 2y agoI think China is both a far better environment for this tech ... and we just don't know how bad it's become. Every metric says China's youth is doing horrible. Xinjang is doing terrible. Mining provinces are doing terrible. And by terrible we mean "economic growth for China as a whole is probably around -3%" (guesstimates from US banks, not Chinese government figures), so there isn't a single place that is doing well, it's just there's disaster provinces and there's catastrophe provinces. Chinese (esp. youth) are locked up, there are a lot of stories about migration being denied on a large scale for Han Chinese, including within China itself (not allowed to move cities, like you saw long ago in the Soviet Union) And yet we hear nothing. Meanwhile there's "social credit score", mass unemployment in the capital city, and expert LLM teams (that have put the best US and EU teams to shame 2 or 3 times now) ... I think we'll suddenly find out China far ahead of absolutely anyone else in this field.