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“Every few years, they make these amazing claims about the technology,” EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @nytimes.com for a story based on EFF’s border surveillance technology data. “And then an oversight body looks at it and finds it’s a big, wasteful program that is not delivering results.”

nytimes.comTrump’s ‘Smart Wall’ of A.I. Cameras Is Watching the Border, and More Than a Million PeopleThe administration is planning a massive expansion of the surveillance program. Here’s how much it can see.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The @nytimes.com used EFF's ongoing map of surveillance at the US-Mexico border to reveal how this technology invades the privacy of millions of everyday Americans. This is exactly the use case we have in mind when we investigate tech and release our research under a Creative Commons license.

eff.orgCBP Is Expanding Its Surveillance Tower Program at the U.S.-Mexico Border–And We're Mapping ItTo provide researchers with the tools they need to analyze the impact of U.S. border security policy, EFF is releasing a new map and dataset of more than 340 surveillance towers installed by Customs a...