An-Najah News - Palestinians who are granted humanitarian or family reunification permits in Israel are usually required to visit the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories  offices to verify their status but one of the things that have been requested from palestinian living in Israel to download an invasive app that verifies whether their residents’ permits are still valid.
The  app also tracks the user’s movements and the messages received on the device due to this an controversial debate is raising constitutional privacy questions and criticism.

In order to install the app, users need to approve the following terms: “We may make use of the information we collect for any purpose, including for security purposes which will enables the Israeli military to track the user’s location as well as access any notifications they receive, files they download or save, and the device’s camera.

Lawyers with human rights NGO Hamoked, Adi Lustigman and Benjamin Agsteribbe, wrote on behalf of their organisation that “Placing these requirements as the sole default for a person to use the application is extremely unreasonable, and cynically exploits public distress and panic in these grim times for the inappropriate purpose to invade one’s privacy in a manner that damages human dignity.