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SFPD deploys AI video analysis tool used by Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem

Critic of BriefCam deployment

The San Francisco Police Department has deployed BriefCam, an AI video analysis platform developed by Israeli researchers. Israeli authorities used the same tool to monitor Palestinians in East Jerusalem. The $198,000, three-year contract, funded by federal grants, supports the department's Real Time Crime Center.

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"It is giving the government the power to track individuals across hundreds or thousands of networked cameras as they go about their business."

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"This speaks to the fact that even when the city seems to acknowledge that there are some civil liberty issues with this technology, they are still in on this surveillance maximalism."

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