Aman monitors Israeli soldiers with artificial intelligence.
The Israeli army will routinely monitor the social media accounts of all regular soldiers, as part of renewed preparations to prevent sensitive information from being exposed to the enemy.
According to the Israeli Army Radio (Gali Zahal), the new system, called “Morpheus,” is based on artificial intelligence technology and aims to scan the public accounts of some 170,000 soldiers.
The system analyzes texts, images, and videos uploaded to social media and issues warnings in cases where there are concerns about the disclosure of security-related details.
The IDF says that if a sensitive post is identified, the soldier will receive an automated notification that he or she must delete the post, and in serious cases, a telephone investigation will be conducted by an information security officer.
According to Israeli Army Radio, the Morpheus system has two main limitations: it will focus only on open accounts that are not set to private, and it will not monitor stockpiles due to legal restrictions on citizens’ privacy (a claim that is far-fetched, given the regime’s record of espionage and data theft by its intelligence services).
Over the past four months, the pilot version of the system has monitored 45,000 soldiers. According to army sources, thousands of cases have been identified in which soldiers were required to delete sensitive content.
The army acknowledges that the new initiative “strains the boundaries of privacy and the limits of power,” but insists that the move is a necessary step given the damage caused by information released to social media, which the army claims allowed Hamas to build a comprehensive intelligence apparatus before the October 7 operation.
According to the report, Hamas’s military-intelligence network, consisting of around 2,500 agents, spent around five years systematically gathering information in preparation for the October 7 attack.