This article tackles one of the latest—but nonetheless baffling—displays of public apathy towards surveillance: that of much of the Israeli public towards the decision to recruit the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) to do COVID-19 contact tracing during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The case of a secretive state agency being authorized to do surveillance on its citizens for a strictly non-security-related matter seems to realize many of the dangers that surveillance/privacy scholars warn about with regards to surveillance expansion, function creep, and the creation of a surveillance state. I contribute to existing literature about apathy towards surveillance and the privacy paradox by offering the term “nontargets” as an explanation. This term suggests that, alongside social groups that are likely to be targeted by a given surveillance application, there are certain recognizable nontargets that most likely will not bear the brunt of the surveillance, at least not in the short- and medium-term, and thus do not fear it. In the case at hand, which is examined using a qualitative context-bound study, I suggest that Jewish-Israelis are such a nontarget group with regards to this novel Shin Bet surveillance, which explains a significant part of their apathy towards it.

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非目标：了解对以色列安全局 COVID-19 监视的冷漠

本文讨论了公众对监视的最新但仍然令人困惑的表现之一：大部分以色列公众对招募以色列安全局 (Shin Bet) 在持续的冠状病毒期间进行 COVID-19 接触者追踪的决定大流行。一个秘密的国家机构被授权对其公民进行严格与安全无关的事项进行监视的案例似乎意识到了监视/隐私学者警告的许多关于监视扩展、功能蠕变和创建的危险的监视状态。我通过提供术语“非目标”作为解释，为现有的关于对监视和隐私悖论的冷漠的文献做出了贡献。这个术语表明，除了可能成为特定监控应用程序目标的社会群体之外，还有一些可识别的非目标群体很可能不会首当其冲，至少在短期和中期不会受到监控，因此不必担心. 在手头的案例中，使用定性的上下文绑定研究进行检查，我认为犹太人和以色列人是这种新颖的 Shin Bet 监视的非目标群体，这在很大程度上解释了他们对它的冷漠。