AnyVision is a private Israeli company specializing in the development of face, body and object-recognition software.

The company’s software can be integrated into cameras of any type, equipping them with recognition capabilities. The company is involved in two projects of the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank. The first involves a system installed in military checkpoints that use AnyVision technology to identify who has a work permit and who does not. To work within the Green Line and in Israeli settlements, Palestinians must obtain a work permit issued by Israel’s security apparatus. One can only apply for a work permit if they have a biometric ID card, over 22years old and married.

The second, a more classified project, implemented within the West Bank and outside the military checkpoints. The project utilizes the company’s facial recognition technology, to latch on already existing CCTV cameras network, equipping them with facial recognition capabilities and thus heightening military monitoring and surveillance of Palestinians. In 2018, AnyVision received an award by the Israeli Ministry of Defense for its role in the project.

The company’s technology has also been used by the Israeli police as part of its surveillance apparatus in occupied East Jerusalem, where the primary target are the city’s Palestinian residents.

The company’s software has been installed in over 100,000 cameras, in 43 countries as part of some 350 projects. The software operates on real-time scanning and cross-analysis of data collected from various sources, including open-source data collection.

AnyVision has some 240 employees working out of its offices in Tel Aviv, London, New York, Mexico and Singapore. It also has a team of 30 PhD researcher based in Belfast, occupied Northern Ireland.