cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/42675636

Protection, flush with billions in new funding, is seeking “advanced AI” technologies to surveil urban residential areas, increasingly sophisticated autonomous systems, and even the ability to see through walls.

A CBP presentation for an “Industry Day” summit with private sector vendors, obtained by The Intercept, lays out a detailed wish list of tech CBP hopes to purchase, like satellite connectivity for surveillance towers along the border and improved radio communications. But it also shows that state-of-the-art, AI-augmented surveillance technologies will be central to the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant campaign, which will extend deep into the interior of the North American continent, hundreds of miles from international borders as commonly understood.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    “When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak.”

    -Donald Trump

    Shows you what type of person he is

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      Is this real? This can’t be real. Then, on the other hand, it’s the American president. The guy who said that ancient Rome and the US have always been allied.

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    Wouldn’t surprising me if they already do. They got all kinds of stuff at their check points and you have few constitutional rights there (even less so in this admin)

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      Oh they absolutely do. Consequences aren’t a thing for this government. And won’t be until people unite.