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Shin Bet chief seeks unrestricted access to border facial recognition data

Türkiye Today · · International · Surveillance & Civil Liberties

Here is the JSON object: ```json { "summary": "Israel's internal security agency, Shin Bet, is reportedly pushing for unrestricted access to facial recognition data collected at border crossings. The request would remove existing limits on how the agency can retrieve and use biometric information

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