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International Business Machines Corp (IBM) designed and operates Israel's central population database "Eitan" for the Population, Immigration, and Borders Authority, which includes a biometric registry recording personal data by ethnic and religious identity. IBM also provides technologies to the Israeli military. The company has been documented as operating infrastructure that supports Israel's discriminatory population registry system.
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