Technology plays a massive role in the apartheid and violence happening in Palestine. Occupied Plaestinian territories have been used for decades by the Israeli state to test military technology before selling it to repressive regimes around the world. biometric surveillance tools like facial recognition and license plate readers run at military checkpoints and surveillance cameras tracking the movement of Palestinians, gamified smartphone aplpications help the israeli military register Palestinians into databases, automated drones regularly shoot and kill Palestinian civilians, and the list goes on. As technologies, researchers, and FAccT community members, we are all implicated. Two of ACM FAccT's funding sources, Google & Amazon, are in the business of making Israeli apartheid more efficient, violent & deadly, by providing the Israeli government with $1.2 billion worth of cloud compute infrastructure. It is our duty as the ACM FAccT community to live up to our own code of ethics and send a message: We will not take money from war profiteers.
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