Tech-washing / Google quietly building Trump's AI surveillance wall

Despite previous assurances from #Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in 2020 that Google was "not working on any projects associated with immigration enforcement at the southern border," contract documents show Google is now central to a #CBP project upgrading video surveillance towers in #Arizona.

https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/

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Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border

Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal.

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