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Following the exposure of Walla! NEWS: Petition to the High Court against the widespread use of the Eye of the Hawk system - Walla! News

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The Association for Civil Rights and the "Israel Privacy" association demand that the police stop using the secret database on the movement of civilians on the roads, and delete the information collected. Their petition stated that the vehicle records had been kept for at least ten months. "They did not give me any specific permission, this is a system that is open to us," a police officer testified


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Following the exposure of Walla!

NEWS: Petition to the High Court against the widespread use of the hawk eye system

The Association for Civil Rights and the "Israel Privacy" association demand that the police stop using the secret database on the movement of civilians on the roads, and delete the information collected.

Their petition stated that the vehicle records had been kept for at least ten months.

"They did not give me any specific permission, this is a system that is open to us," a police officer testified

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Daniel Dolev

Thursday, 28 January 2021, 12:38

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A petition filed today (Thursday) with the High Court reveals new details about Ein HaNetz - the police's secret database on movements of Israeli citizens, the existence of which was revealed in Walla! NEWS. The petition, filed by the Association for Civil Rights and the "Israel Privacy" organization, revealed The access of police officers to the system is almost unrestricted.The



Hawk's Eye is a system of smart cameras that can read license plates in their area, compare license numbers to predefined databases, such as the database of stolen vehicles and the expired vehicle database, and alert them in real time. documentation of all vehicles passing in front of her, so there is suspicion related to a particular vehicle, you can see where he went past. this creates a database of citizens who did not have any offense, and even not suspected of anything, just in case whose vehicle is involved in a crime in the future.



the system operates without any The series or a legal permit, and without any supervision over its operation by the police. For example, if a police officer wants to check through cell phone locations where a particular person was, he will have to get a court order. On the other hand, to check through "Hawk's Eye" where The same person - he does not need an order.

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Routine action in investigating car thefts (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The petition filed relies, among other things, on protocols from criminal trials used by the hawk's eye, and clarifies how common and routine the use of the system is.

Thus, it turns out that in the case of car theft heard in the Magistrate's Court in Be'er Sheva, evidence from the system was submitted.

A police officer from the city's anti-crime unit explained in his testimony that an inspection of the Hawk's Eye system is a routine operation in investigating car thefts, and does not require certification or even special authorization.

"I was not given any specific permission, it's just a system open to us as a researcher," he testified.

In another case the system was used to locate a driver who was involved in a car accident.



The police maintain complete secrecy regarding the system, which has been operating on Israeli roads since 2013.

Evidence produced by the hawk is presented in criminal cases under a certificate of confidentiality, which prevents defense attorneys from finding out details about how the system works.



One of the details that the police zealously guard is the length of time the photos are kept.

A police source previously told Walla!

NEWS that the documentation has been kept for at least half a year, and in practice may remain in the hands of the police for years.

Attached to the petition is a transcript of a court hearing in which police officer Lior Ilan testified, who defines himself as "the head of the infrastructure team in the world of Ein Hanetz."

Ilan testifies that he conducted an inspection of a vehicle photographed in the system ten months earlier.

This means that the system keeps pictures of the vehicles that passed in front of it for at least ten months, and allows the police to check where each vehicle was in Israel during that period.



The court hearings reveal that in at least some cases the system photographs the vehicles so that the people sitting inside can also be identified.

However, unlike the license numbers, the system is known to be unable to perform automatic face recognition.

"An oiled system that violates our freedom"

Petitioners warn that beyond the invasion of privacy by the system, the lack of supervision over it increases the risk of unauthorized use by police officers in the database, and the disclosure of sensitive information.

They remind that recently turned out to be police commissioner, long-standing Kobi Shabtai, previously instructed policewoman transfer information from private companies to hawk eye.



"System hawk eye work similarly to other person undercover surveillance," says the petition, filed through attorneys Ann Sweatshirt Hugh and Avner Pinchuk of the Association for Civil Rights. "Obviously, if the police had sought to place detectives who would track millions of people traveling on the country's roads at any given moment, record information about their movements, collect this information and perform various processing, there was no doubt Severe and improper due to privacy and dignity.

The fact that surveillance is carried out in our case by technological means and not by a flesh-and-blood detective does not change the essence of the surveillance but only increases its accuracy. "

"The system works similar to covert surveillance of a person" (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The petition alleges that the police use the system violates a number of basic rights such as the right to privacy, which is explicitly protected by the Basic Law, as well as the presumption of innocence and the right to a fair trial.

The court is therefore required to order the police to stop using the system, and to delete the database collected in it.



Advocate Naama Materso, CEO of the Israel Privacy Association, said that "the hawk eye system redefines the meaning of the term 'surveillance state', when with the click of a button the police can know about every driver in Israel where he was, when and with whom. Which infringes not only on our privacy, but also on our freedom. "

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