Despite Silicon Valley and Big Tech’s promise to create technologies that improve our lives and make the world a better place, we have seen a sharp turn toward investment in weaponised technologies, exacerbating violence and death, as big tech firms chase lucrative contracts within the military-industrial complex.
This transition has been happening for quite some time now, but nowhere is it clearer than in the occupation of Palestine.
For years, Palestine has been used as a “laboratory” by Israeli surveillance technology firms.
These companies, often started by former Israeli intelligence officers, leverage relationships within the Israeli military to deploy and test their devices across the occupied Palestinian territories before marketing them as “field-tested” to authoritarian and repressive regimes worldwide……more
