A human rights attorney raised alarm Monday over the expansion plans of Toka, an Israeli cyber firm that sells hacking technologies capable of finding, accessing, and manipulating security and smart camera footage.
“These are capabilities that were previously unimaginable,” human rights lawyer Alon Sapir told the outlet. “This is a dystopian technology from a human rights perspective. Just its mere existence raises serious questions.”
“One can imagine video being manipulated to incriminate innocent citizens or shield guilty parties that are close to the system, or even just manipulative editing for ideological or even political purposes should it fall into the wrong hands,” said Sapir. From a legal perspective, “intelligence collection is a sensitive issue,” Sapir explained. “Despite a lack of legislation, the police deploy mass surveillance means they may not be fully authorized to use: technology like theWhile manipulated videos are inadmissible as evidence in Israeli courts, Sapir noted that “a scenario in which someone is accused of something and doesn’t know if the evidence presented against them is real or not is truly dystopian.
“There have been cases in which video evidence helped refute false claims made by settlers and soldiers, and helped save innocent Palestinians from jail,” he added. “We’ve also seen cases in which video evidence has been tampered with in the past.”
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