#Google Is Helping the #Trump Administration Deploy #AI Along the #MexicanBorder
Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for #surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal.
by Sam Biddle, April 3 2025
Excerpt: "#IBM will provide its Maximo Visual Inspection software, a tool the company generally markets for industrial quality control inspections — not tracking humans. #Equitus is offering its #VideoSentinel, a more traditional video surveillance analytics program explicitly marketed for border surveillance that, according to a promotional YouTube video, recently taken offline, featuring a company executive, can detect 'people walking caravan style … some of them are carrying backpacks and being identified as mules.'
"'Within 60 days from the start of the project, real life video from the southern border is available to train and create #AI / #ML models to be used by the Equitus Video Sentinel.'"
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/LGc6s
#USPol #BorderPatrol #ICE #KristiNoem #SurveillanceState #Fascism #AISurveillance
Hacker 
and not worth the trouble. 
Oh well. Thanks for cluing me in
