where characteristics such as age and gender are used to determine which advertisements are presented to which customers. In terms of more security-orientated scenarios, Israel has shown keen interest in the technology. Israeli firm AnyVision is at the forefront of development efforts, with that facial recognition “is used by the Israeli military at border crossing checkpoints, where it logs the faces of Palestinians crossing into Israel” and that it is “secretly used … throughout the West Bank … to monitor the movement of Palestinian residents.” Of course, no human would be able to cross-match thousands of faces against a database with this degree of accuracy or speed and thus machines have proven to be compatible with the recognition stage of distinction.