Launched in 2016 in response to a Tel Aviv capturing and the Pulse Nightclub capturing in Orlando, Florida, Gabriel provides a set of surveillance merchandise for “safety and security” incidents at “so-called gentle targets and communal areas, together with faculties, neighborhood facilities, synagogues and church buildings.” The corporate makes the lofty promise that its merchandise “cease mass shootings.” Based on a 2018 report on Gabriel revealed within the Jerusalem Put up, there have been an estimated 475,000 such “gentle targets” throughout the U.S., that means that “the potential marketplace for Gabriel is large.”
Gabriel, since its founding, has been backed by “a formidable group of leaders,” primarily “former leaders of Mossad, Shin Guess [Israel’s domestic intelligence agency], FBI and CIA.” In recent times, much more former leaders of Israeli and American intelligence businesses have discovered their approach onto Gabriel’s advisory board and have promoted the corporate’s merchandise.
Whereas the adoption of its surveillance know-how was slower than anticipated in the USA, that dramatically modified final 12 months, when an “nameless philanthropist” gave the corporate $1 million to start putting in its merchandise all through faculties, homes of worship and neighborhood facilities all through the nation. That very same “philanthropist” has promised to recruit others to match his donation, with the last word purpose of putting in Gabriel’s system in “each single synagogue, college and campus neighborhood within the nation.”
With this CIA, FBI and Mossad-backed system now being put in all through the USA for “free,” it’s price taking a essential take a look at Gabriel and its merchandise, significantly the corporate’s future imaginative and prescient for its surveillance system. Maybe unsurprisingly, a lot of the corporate’s future imaginative and prescient coincides with the imaginative and prescient of the intelligence businesses backing it – pre-crime, robotic policing and biometric surveillance.
“Security” By way of Invasive Surveillance
Gabriel’s product suite is constructed round its “sensible defend” panic button. The panic button could be activated each manually and remotely and provides two-way communication, a reside video feed, on the spot altering and gunshot detection by acoustic means. Nonetheless, the panic button is supposed for use in tandem with firm’s “menace detection” suite, which incorporates “sensible cameras” that use AI, facial recognition and associated applied sciences to detect not simply weapons, but additionally “fights” and “irregular conduct” of individuals in a selected space. Gabriel’s cameras and panic buttons all through a facility are supposed to act as “activation triggers.” The triggering is basically automated and managed by AI. When an “activation set off” is about off, the Gabriel system then enters any certainly one of its alert modes, which embody emergency, panic, silent panic and yellow (which is the alert mode for minor incidents).
As famous elsewhere on the corporate’s web site, Gabriel is seeking to broaden far past faculties and homes of worship to retail shops, warehouses, knowledge facilities and banks. At these different amenities, it particularly promotes its “irregular conduct” detection capabilities. One instance, given in reference to how its merchandise is likely to be used within the banking sector, states the next as an “irregular conduct detection instance”:
A bunch of persons are loitering within the ATM foyer. Gabriel is activated in silent panic mode and sends alerts with reside video to the safety operations middle and on-site safety staff. Audio speak warnings start to broadcast within the foyer. Safety arrives to clear the scene.
One other instance, this time for the retail sector, notes how Gabriel surveillance cameras would activate alerts once they detect “uncommon actions.” Yet one more instance for warehouses and distribution facilities notes how facial recognition performance might be used to activate “silent panic mode” when a terminated worker is detected on the premises.
One of many hallmarks of the Gabriel system versus different methods, per the corporate, is its heavy reliance on AI and machine studying. As famous on their web site, “we’re disrupting the safety business by changing legacy safety methods depending on human interplay with automated methods that cut back response time, chaos and value.” That “disruption” is based partially on Gabriel’s dedication to “innovation,” which has prompted them to combine what they name “preventative capabilities” into its platform. The corporate additionally notes that they’ve “already begun integrating [the Gabriel system] with leading edge applied sciences corresponding to weapons detection, safety drones, robotics and sensible cameras.”
There may be little additional info out there concerning the firm’s efforts to combine their system with safety drones and robotics. Many safety drones are at present available on the market to be used in properties, industrial websites and different sorts of areas, as are safety robots, such because the robotic “canine” created by the Hyundai-owned firm Boston Dynamics which might be at present used by some U.S. legislation enforcement businesses. This, after all, implies that Gabriel’s ambitions on this regard are prone to develop into actuality sooner slightly than later. What’s price noting, nevertheless, is that drones and robots alike can simply be “upgraded” to wield lethal weapons. With Gabriel’s know-how in thoughts, the Orwellian chance of getting a completely automated response to varied sorts of incidents, together with these arising from the detection of “irregular conduct,” that might embody the usage of lethal power now not appear as futuristic or far-fetched as they as soon as did.
Additionally vital to notice is the corporate’s meant purpose of providing predictive policing (i.e., pre-crime) functionalities. They state that: “Sooner or later, we see a safety platform [i.e., a future iteration of Gabriel’s products] that may anticipate a mass causality [sic] occasions based mostly on human conduct, determine mass casualty threats previous to the primary motion taken, and automate alerting to tell potential victims earlier than any hurt is finished.” Predictive policing has been a significant purpose of firms deeply tied to the CIA, in addition to Israeli intelligence for plenty of years, with essentially the most well-known of those being Palantir.
Gabriel’s methods, as soon as put in, provide full but invasive surveillance of civilian areas. Whereas the colleges and neighborhood facilities that Gabriel most frequently courts have been sporadically focused by shooters over the previous few many years, these are sometimes locations which might be historically tired of implementing AI-driven surveillance options on their premises. But, such locations should develop into “linked” if the long run paradigm of full connectivity between all folks and locations (e.g., the web of issues, the web of locations, the web of our bodies) is to return to move. Certainly, this paradigm is critical to additional the connections between the digital and bodily worlds which might be seen as essential to usher within the so-called 4th industrial revolution, or 4IR (which itself has been described because the “fusion” of the bodily and digital realms).
Notably, Gabriel’s merchandise are supposed to type a community equal to “the web of locations,” which is a “specialization of the web of issues” that permits buildings to be “instrumentally empowered by sensors, knowledge sharing, and computation.” Gabriel brazenly touts the “community impact” of its merchandise when they’re put in in a number of buildings in the identical space, making a “secure and linked neighborhood.” Whereas Gabriel casts this “community impact” as serving to to maintain total communities secure, it additionally advantages the implementation of the “sensible metropolis” mannequin, which makes use of the web of issues and ubiquitous sensors and cameras to reap huge troves of knowledge which might be then used to “handle service supply,” with these companies together with the deployment of legislation enforcement.
The principle drivers (and builders) of the “sensible metropolis” and “web of issues” paradigms are, after all, Massive Tech. It’s price noting that, regardless of advertising and marketing itself as an organization aimed toward thwarting mass shootings when and earlier than they happen, Gabriel has additionally been actively courting the “Massive 5” tech behemoths of Silicon Valley – Google, Amazon, Meta (previously Fb), Apple and Microsoft. Chatting with the Occasions of Israel final 12 months, Gabriel’s co-founder Yoni Sherizen said that:
Our product is now being adopted by the banking and monetary companies sector and we’ve some pilots with a number of the largest know-how firms, the Massive 5. So, we’re knowledge facilities, company places of work or campuses, manufacturing amenities for prescribed drugs and different important items… [we’re] defending a complete number of various kinds of areas.
The Wind Beneath Gabriel’s Wings
Whereas mass casualty occasions in the USA are dreadful and will probably be mitigated to some extent by applied sciences like these supplied by Gabriel, the corporate’s deep connections to Israeli and American intelligence businesses, which have been looking for to make the most of such applied sciences for ulterior ends, are a trigger for concern.
Once I first wrote about Gabriel in 2019, their board of advisors included 4 people. They included Ram Ben-Barak, former deputy director of Mossad and former director-general of Israel’s intelligence ministry; Yohanan Danino, former chief of police for the state of Israel; Kobi Mor, former director of abroad mission for the Israeli intelligence company Shin Guess; and Ryan Petty, the daddy of a Parkland capturing sufferer and pal of former Florida governor (and present Florida senator) Rick Scott. On the time, Petty was the one American on the board.
Since then, Gabriel has been courting American faculties, enterprise and different establishments rather more aggressively and have added extra Individuals to its advisory board. These embody Bob Pocica, former FBI Particular Agent, former Senior Director for World Safety at Pfizer and Senior Advisor to the Chertoff Group (as in former head of the Division of Homeland Safety, Michael Chertoff), and Don Hepburn, former CIA government for 26 years in addition to a former FBI Deputy Assistant Director. Additionally added was Menachem Pakman, who labored as a senior government for Israel’s Prime Minister’s Workplace for over 30 years and is an skilled in “intelligence, safety and counterterrorism.”
Whereas it’s definitely doable that these quite a few former officers from American and Israeli intelligence could don’t have any ulterior motive in advising Gabriel, you will need to be aware that the leaders of Israeli navy intelligence and Mossad don’t see it that approach. As I’ve detailed in a number of earlier studies, Israel’s Calcalist Tech revealed a report in 2019 which famous that “since 2012, cyber-related and intelligence tasks that had been beforehand carried out in-house within the Israeli navy and Israel’s important intelligence arms are transferred to firms that in some instances had been constructed for this actual objective.” It later states that:
In some instances, managers of improvement tasks within the Israeli navy and intelligence arms had been inspired to type their very own firms which then took over the [military and/or intelligence] undertaking.
It’s not precisely clear why Israel’s navy intelligence and different intelligence businesses determined to start outsourcing its operations in 2012, although Calcalist Tech suggests the reasoning was associated to the distinction in wages between the personal sector and the general public sector, with pay being a lot larger within the former. Nonetheless, 2012 was additionally the 12 months that American hedge fund supervisor Paul Singer — along with Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-time financial adviser and former chair of the Israeli Nationwide Financial Council, Eugene Kandel — determined to create Begin-Up Nation Central (SUNC).
As I beforehand reported for MintPress Information, SUNC was based as a part of a deliberate Israeli authorities effort to counter the nonviolent Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) motion and to make Israel the dominant international “cyber energy.” This coverage is aimed toward growing Israel’s diplomatic energy and particularly undermining BDS in addition to any nationwide or worldwide efforts to carry Israel’s authorities accountable for struggle crimes and violations of worldwide legislation in relation to the Palestinians. The purpose is to produce other nations develop into so depending on Israeli firms, and extra particularly know-how firms, that they’re unable to successfully problem Israeli home or international coverage.
In 2018, Netanyahu was requested by Fox Information host Mark Levin whether or not the massive progress seen lately in Israel’s know-how sector, particularly tech start-ups, was a part of Netanyahu’s plan. Netanyahu responded, “That’s very a lot my plan … It’s a really deliberate coverage.” He later added that “Israel had know-how as a result of the navy, particularly navy intelligence, produced lots of capabilities. These extremely gifted younger women and men who come out of the navy or the Mossad, they need to begin their start-ups.”
Netanyahu once more outlined this coverage a 12 months later on the 2019 Cybertech Convention in Tel Aviv, the place he said that Israel’s emergence as one of many prime 5 “cyber powers” had “required permitting this mixture of navy intelligence, academia and business to converge in a single place” and that this additional required permitting “our graduates of our navy and intelligence models to merge into firms with native companions and international companions.”
This merging of “navy intelligence, academia and business” has additionally been brazenly acknowledged by former Mossad Director Tamir Pardo, who said in 2017 that “everybody” within the Israeli cybertechnology sector is an “alumni” of both Israeli intelligence, just like the Mossad, or Israeli navy intelligence, like Unit 8200 (Israel’s equal of the Nationwide Safety Company, or NSA). Pardo even went so far as to say that the Mossad itself is “like a start-up.”
Pardo would know. After leaving his put up as Mossad director in 2016, he dove straight into the world of Israeli tech start-ups, turning into chairman of Sepio Programs, whose two CEOs are former Unit 8200 officers. Sepio Programs’ advisory board consists of the previous chief info safety officer of the CIA, Robert Bigman, and former head of the Israel Nationwide Cyber Bureau and veteran of Israeli navy intelligence, Rami Efrati. Sepio Programs’ cybersecurity software program has been adopted by a number of banks, telecom and insurance coverage firms, together with within the U.S. and Brazil.
Now that we’ve established that quite a few Israeli tech-focused firms are recognized to be working as fronts for intelligence, the query arises of whether or not Gabriel is one such firm. Whereas it’s tough to know for positive, a number of firms which were outed as fronts, corresponding to the Jeffrey Epstein and Ehud Barak-connected Carbyne, have been concerned in creating and implementing the mandatory construction for a “pre-crime” strategy to legislation enforcement in the USA. Gabriel’s imaginative and prescient for a totally automated system that may use predictive analytics of human conduct to cease crimes earlier than they occur is eerily much like the identical imaginative and prescient espoused by Carbyne earlier than their ties to Epstein and Israeli intelligence had been outed very publicly in 2019.
The usage of “pre-crime”, as detailed in sci-fi epics like Phillip Ok. Dick’s The Minority Report, has deeply unsettling implications for society, civil liberties and the way forward for policing. As famous by the British Journal of Criminology, “pre-crime hyperlinks coercive state actions to suspicion with out the necessity for cost, prosecution or conviction” and is a component of a bigger development “in direction of integrating nationwide safety [e.g., intelligence agencies] into felony justice.” Certainly, as I have famous in my work for a few years now, American and Israeli intelligence businesses, significantly their most nefarious elements, have covertly been the drivers of “pre-crime” protocols meant to get rid of public dissent for the reason that Nineteen Eighties, if not even earlier.
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These early “pre-crime” methods, like these within the works as we speak, have lengthy been depending on know-how in addition to mass surveillance as a method of profiling would-be dissidents. The software program key to those early iterations was the PROMIS software program, which was stolen by Israeli intelligence operatives along with the U.S. Division of Justice and used to profile and observe folks in addition to money flows within the U.S. and past. U.S. nationwide safety officers concerned within the Iran-Contra scandal used PROMIS to create the “Essential Core” database, nonetheless in use as we speak, which lists these Individuals deemed “harmful” within the occasion of a vaguely outlined “nationwide emergency” that might threaten “continuity of presidency.” As I’ve beforehand famous, Israeli intelligence performed an integral function within the improvement of Essential Core.
In the present day, pre-crime is already right here, although it’s at present reserved for particular instances versus the principle strategy of U.S. legislation enforcement. In 2019, then-Legal professional Normal William Barr formally adopted pre-crime as Division of Justice coverage through a program known as DEEP (Disruption and Early Engagement Program). Since then, the Biden administration’s Battle on Home Terror framework is largely predicated on pre-crime and goals to select up the place Barr left off. So as to have an efficient pre-crime system, one wants the mandatory infrastructure. That infrastructure is at present being supplied by a number of firms with overt ties to intelligence, corresponding to Mark43, Carbyne and Gabriel.
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But, whereas Mark43 and Carbyne goal legislation enforcement and emergency companies, respectively, Gabriel is putting in the infrastructure crucial for pre-crime immediately into locations of enterprise, leisure, studying and worship. Its focus – faculties, homes of worship and neighborhood facilities – are locations that will usually not buy such invasive know-how. But, Gabriel’s fear-driven advertising and marketing specializing in mass shootings (which notably mirrors Carbyne’s personal advertising and marketing efforts) have prompted some to purchase in.
Enter the “nameless philanthropist” talked about firstly of this text. Per studies, that “nameless philanthropist” is offering the cash wanted to position Gabriel’s merchandise in faculties, homes of worship and campuses all through the USA “free of charge.” As famous by the Israeli outlet No Camels, Sherizen shared that “[the philanthropist’s] imaginative and prescient is to really cowl each single college and synagogue and get everybody on the identical platform.”What a boon for Gabriel’s “community impact” and broader pre-crime ambitions.
The anonymity of this “philanthropist” is notable because the time period “philanthropist” has been used to launder the reputations of notoriously corrupt and cutthroat businessmen for generations. If one remembers again to the Jeffrey Epstein case, the intelligence-linked pedophile was extensively hailed as a “philanthropist” earlier than his covert and illicit actions turned extra extensively recognized. It additionally begs the query – what sort of “philanthropist” would need pre-crime surveillance infrastructure in each college within the nation? The story provided by Gabriel’s co-founder might simply be cowl for a similar intelligence businesses backing Gabriel and associated firms and we might do properly to raised scrutinize the know-how getting used to review and surveil our kids and our communities.
