According to the Jerusalem Post, if the wearer decides to break the rules, the wrist bracelet would stop tracking them beyond their home.
SuperCom reported to the Post that they were contracted by the government to help develop this new concept.
It is up to the Health Ministry to decide the details of the project, but currently the plan is for arrivals to get tested, [and] then when they receive their results at the airport or at the coronavirus hotel, to go into quarantine at home with the solution that we provide.
Nobody is forced to do it, but for those who are interested, it gives them another option: more flexibility,” he added. “We call it a ‘freedom bracelet’ because we are not locking anybody up, but rather giving them the opportunity to go home.
Ordan Trabelsi. President and CEO of SuperCom
The bracelet kit also includes a smartphone and a sticker that needs to be attached to a wall.
People can wear the bracelet on their ankle or wrist – the Health Ministry can decide. Each individual goes to their home, and we identify the address with the phone which carries a GPS system. Once they arrive, they put the sticker on the wall and from that moment the quarantine starts. As long as the bracelet is close enough to the sticker, no alert is sent out to the system.
The CEO explained the bracelet does not have GPS, so if the wearer leaves the home regardless then they will be off the radar. He also explained that the technology does not track the user’s specific room he or she is in.
We have technology that would allow it, but it is not used in this situation. Rather, the way the kit functions is similar to what happens with Bluetooth headphones: if you are in the house they are connected, if you leave the house the communication is broken.
As long as the bracelet is close enough to the sticker, there will be no alert. If the bracelet is cut off, if the sticker on the wall is moved, or if the transmission stops, our servers are going to be notified and will pass the information to the Health Ministry. At that point, it is going to be up to them to decide what to do.
We don’t take any personal information from the user, all we are identifying is if a certain bracelet is at the home where it is supposed to be. We do not record, we do not track movements, and we do not take pictures.
Another Israeli company, Electra, handles all the logistical information.
Trabelsi also said he is not sure if the Israeli Health Ministry intends on using this technology on children.
The CEO however did note that he acknowledges that not everyone likes the idea of wearing a bracelet.
Privacy is a valid concern, and I do understand why people might be asking. However there are a number of considerations. First of all, this is just an option – the government is not forcing anyone to use this technology. If someone is afraid, they can just stay at the hotel.
If a person decides to leave home, they are breaking the quarantine but nobody is tracking them. All we know is that the bracelet is not where it is supposed to be. Other technologies that we use on a regular basis, like smartphones or apps, actually gather much more data, are much more intrusive.
Trabelsi says that this helps with an undermanned police force, and saves taxpayer’s money.
The government spends around NIS 600 per person per day in quarantine hotels. Our solution is much cheaper. These hotels also create a lot of stress and resistance. We are just offering an alternative.
We have been a cybersecurity and government data security company for many years. We have projects all over the world, in the UK, China, Tanzania, the US, Ecuador and many more countries. We manage some of the most sensitive government information, including passports, ID cards and driving licenses. For us, this is a very simple project that we are well prepared to handle. We feel very comfortable that we can deploy this at the proper standard of security.
Too Draconian
In a newly released report, it seems this new project and others may become temporarily short lived. The Israeli courts have issued a ruling that the spying project must stop and referred to it as “draconian.” This ruling seems to target an already established surveillance technology and measures, Shin Bet.
From this day on, the use of the Shin Bet will be limited to cases in which a confirmed coronavirus patient was not cooperating in his (epidemiological) investigation, whether intentionally or not, or gave no report of his encounters.
According to France 24, The justices criticised the state’s protracted use of the Shin Bet in the fight against the pandemic, saying it created the feeling that “every Israeli citizen and resident is under constant surveillance, as if he were a character in George Orwell’s ‘1984’”.
Allowing the government to use the surveillance details is a severe, exceptional and draconian blow to the right for privacy and the democratic fabric of society in Israel.
The court noted improvements allowing the government to use the surveillance details is a severe, exceptional and draconian blow to the right for privacy and the democratic fabric of society in Israel, but also felt their were flaws in Shin Bet’s technology, which makes it more harmful than good.
The report also states, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, one of the petitioners, welcomed the ruling, which it hoped would lead authorities “to pause and change course from this slippery slope of using extreme and undemocratic means” against the pandemic.
This ruling came on the same time the new bracelets mentioned above were put into use.
My privacy is important, but the most important thing for me is that all Israel will be in a good health situation.
If this is the price I have to pay (wearing an electronic bracelet), I’m very happy with that.
Gaby Glazman, a 53-year-old arriving from Sao Paolo in Brazil.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.Revelation 13:16-18
They do not have GPS, yet. Give it a little more time and these wrist/ankle bands absolutely will.
The WinePress keeps saying it over and over, but yet again, more proof that Covid has nothing to do with a virus, but everything with ushering in the antichrist systems and technologies.
While it is good the courts are finally starting to buffer some of these measures, it is only a small setback in the long run.
It is also to be noted that many people, such as the Brazilian traveler mentioned in the article, have this precise mindset. They are willing to throw away all of their individual freedoms and liberty in the name of “safety.” Throwing away freedom for government regulated “freedom.” People like him, and SO many more, and are primed, prepped, and ready for the mark of the beast. This is why the masking, temperature checks, tracking systems, and mega push for digital currencies and biometrics are so prevalent right now. They must get the masses to accept this “new normal” to get full control and obedience. And unfortunately, far too many people are lining up for it. And those that oppose this will not be enough to matter, and will be eventually “dealt with.”
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