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New York – When Protester caught in January in January in New York Rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between the mask and scarf. But the days later, the photographs of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online.

“The months that hid faces fell on the drain!” The company for technology that drinks on social media that is praised, claiming that his person’s recognition tool identified a woman despite the overlays.

She was something other than a lonely target. The same software was also used to reconsider images taken during months of pro-Palestinian march On American colleges. The right-wingern Jewish group said some people were identified with a tool on the list of names submitted by the President Donald Trump administration, calling them to be deported in accordance with his Call for expulsion Foreign students who participated in the protests “Pro-jihadistists”.

Other pro-Israeli groups entered supporters on campuses, collapsing them to report foreign students who participated in protests against war in Gaza to the Immigration and Customs Agency.

Push to identify masked demonstrators using face recognition and plug them in between public seduction and private groups. And efforts are excited anxiety among foreign students who are concerned that activism could jeopardize their legal status.

“It’s very about practice. We don’t know who these individuals or what they do with this information,” said Aped Ayoub, the National Executive Director of the Americar-Arabic Anti-Discrimination Committee. “Basically administration is supervision over outsourcing.”

It is unclear whether the names from the external groups reached the highest government officials. But concern about the quest for activists increased from 8. March Arrest Mahmoud KhalilaThe Student of the University of Columbia Palestinian origin helped in lead demonstrations against Israel’s war behavior.

Immigration officers also detained by the University of Naka From Turkey outside Boston this week, and Trump and other officials said that More arrests From international students come.

“Now use state tools to actually go to people,” said the graduate student of Colombia from South Asian who was active in protests and spoke about the state of anonymity for losing visas. “Suddenly we felt like we were forced to think about our survival.”

Ayoub said that partly worried that groups of bent exposures of pro-Palestinian activists would make mistakes and extract students who didn’t do anything wrong.

Some groups that are pushed for deportations say their focus on students whose actions exceed marching in protests, to those Download buildings in campus and encourages violence against Jewish students.

“If you are here, okay, on a student visa that causes civil unrest … attacking people on the streets, singing for the death of people, why the hell came to this country?” He told Eliyah Hawil, a software engineer who built a tool designed to identify masked demonstrators and expeled the woman on a January rally.

Forwarded the names of the demonstration to the groups that pressed them for them to be deported, disciplined, fired or otherwise punished.

“If we want to claim that it’s freedom of speech and I can say that, okay, I can say,” Hawila said. “But that doesn’t mean you’ll run away from the consequences of society after you say that.”

Pro-Israeli groups that circulate protesting photography claim that she soon fired her employer. The employee who answered the phone in the company confirmed that the woman did not work there since the beginning of this year. In a short telephone conversation, a protester, which was not charged with any injustice, refused to comment on the adviser’s advice.

The detection and expansion of personal data for the maltreatment of the opponents became common in the riot over the war in Gaza. Practice, known as Docsing, was used to detect both activists in American and Israeli soldiers who recorded the video from himself on the battlefield.

But the use of facial recognition technology in private groups enters the territory of the previously reserved law, said lawyer Sejal Zota, which UA did not comprominate the UA group of UA A lawsuit against a person’s recognition company ClearViewai.

“We are focused on the government’s use of facial recognition, because we consider this traditional monitoring and monitoring of disagreement,” Zota said. But “now all these groups are somehow condensed in that effort.”

The calls for reporting the demonstrators of immigration authorities have raised roles.

“Please tell everyone who in the university to file complaints to foreign students and the Faculty supported by Hamas” Elizabeth Rand, the President of the Group called Campus, on January 13 to more than 60,000 followers on Facebook. He turned on the link to the LED line.

Rand’s post was one of several who published the Chapter of the American Association of the University of New York University. Rand did not answer messages looking for a comment. Nyu rejected the criticism to have an impact with his administrators.

In early February, messages from the second group were published in the ITERPLE-MANKS CHAT visited from Israeli people living in New York.

“Do you know students on Colombia or any other university that are here on the study visa and participated in demonstrations against Israel?” One message said in Hebrew. “If so, now is our time!”

The accompanying message in English by the group end of the jewelry included a link to the icy telephone line. The group did not respond to comment requests.

Weekly weeks ago Halila, a spokesman for the right-handed Jewish group said the list of foreign students and colleges with nine universities submitted by officials, including the then decision to mimic Khalil’s visa.

Rubio asked this week as the names of the visa recall students reached their desk and whether the faculties or external groups give information. Refused to answer.

“We will not discuss the process by which we identify because we obviously look for more people,” he told reporters late on Thursday during return flight Diplomatic trip in Suriname.

In a statement of one sentence, the Department of Homeland, which includes ICE, said that the immigration agency did not “work with” county, nor did it receive any tips for the telephone line from the group. But DHS refused to respond to certain issues from the associated press on how reports from external groups or the use of facial recognitions are treated.

Betar Daniel Levy spokesman said that some people were identified using a person to recognize a person called Nesherai created by Hawila’s Company, Stalary Technology, which was launched from his Brooklyn apartment. The software is taken by the name from the Hebrew word for “eagle”.

Recently demonstrating reporter software, Hawila pauses several times to customize the computer code for computing about what he said that was exactly the swallowing of thousands of additional photos from Kokirni accounts.

After a disposal, the software matched the screen with a fully masked Protector – seen on the video facing Hawil in recent March – with the feet of publicity of the woman who described online. He said he would report it to the police attack.

Hawila, a native of Lebanon, is not a stranger for controversy. He was the subject of the news 2021. year when he was married to the Ultra Orthodox woman in New York faced the accusations he lied by Jewish. The religious authorities confirmed since then that his mother was Jewish and certified his faith, he said.

Hawila said no longer works directly with betary, but still sharing the name of demonstrations and other pro-capital groups and discussed the licensing of their software for some of them. He showed an e-mail exchange with one group that seemed to confirm such a contact.

“Technology, when used in good ways, makes the world a better place,” he said.

As a candidate, Trump is a campaith in promising to break on campus anti-Semitism and threatened to deport activists with student visas called by violent radicals.

Shortly after the election, Betar claimed the social media to work on identifying and reporting international student demonstrators into incoming administration.

“The entire university departments corrupt Jihadis,” Levy said in recent e-mail exchange with the AP.

Days before his arrest, Khalil said in Interview That he was aware of the betar call for his deportation and that other groups were trying to use him as a “victim”.

Students protest on Israeli behavior in Gaza were not sure what to do from Betar, recently added League against defamation into her list of extremist groups. AdL also expressed support for the abolition of visas of foreign student activists.

At the University of Pittsburgh, the leaders of the Students in Palestine were said to have talked to the police in the school, which would kill the Israeli’s in the killing and early in killing and wounded and wounded members of Lebanon Hezbollah Militia.

Ross Glick, who was a betar executive director at the time, said the message “dark joke of the language in the cheek”, not a threat.

Both sides said, said the police eventually decided that no action was justified. Months later, Beter said Pitt students among those on their deportation list.

The efforts to target the demonstrators encouraged anxiety among international students involved in campus activism.

“They went to our campus, and that is the key source of our fear,” said Colombia Student from South Asia.

She recounted the cancellation of spring breaks plans to travel to Canada, where her husband lives, for fear that she would not be allowed to arouse in the US who abolished her social media accounts to avoid distraction to pro-Palestinian posts.

And because its apartment outside the campus, she said she offered accommodation to other international students living on exemplary urination and are cautious in visits of immigration officers.

Students leaders in the Province of Palestine at George Washington and Pittsburgh University, they said that some international students requested that their e-mail addresses and names removed from membership to avoid testing.

The Colombian graduate student from the UK said that, when he joined the pro-Palestinian campaign last year, he never considered whether it could affect his immigration status.

He is now reconsiding the incident in October, when someone scattered flying in a campus salon that celebrates the attack 2023. Hamas on the Israel who started war. The Grador who supports Israel accused him and others in the room that they were responsible for the flyers and drew their photos, according to the student, who said that there was nothing to do with any relationship.

“My main concern … is that he shared those photographs and identified and shared him with a larger group of people,” the student said.

Other students were concerned with an atmosphere that encourages students to inform their classes.

“I really bothered me because this processes this reporting environment. It gives memories of dictatorship and autocratic regimes,” said Sahar Bostock, who was among the group of Israeli students in Colombia written by an open letter to report pro-Palestinian protesters.

“I had to say,” Do you think this is true? “”

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Joined journalists for Jake Offenhartz journalists and Noreen Nasir in New York and Matthew Lee in Miami contributed to this report.