DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> Is Helping the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Administration Deploy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> Along the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MexicanBorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MexicanBorder</span></a> </p><p>Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a>, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal. </p><p>by Sam Biddle, April 3 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> will provide its Maximo Visual Inspection software, a tool the company generally markets for industrial quality control inspections — not tracking humans. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Equitus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Equitus</span></a> is offering its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VideoSentinel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VideoSentinel</span></a>, 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.'</p><p>"'Within 60 days from the start of the project, real life video from the southern border is available to train and create <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ML</span></a> models to be used by the Equitus Video Sentinel.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/03/go</span><span class="invisible">ogle-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/</span></a></p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/LGc6s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/LGc6s</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BorderPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BorderPatrol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KristiNoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KristiNoem</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AISurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AISurveillance</span></a></p>