The United States under President Donald Trump is ramping up use of surveillance systems and artificial intelligence (AI) to track and arrest immigrants, raising fears that risks to accuracy and privacy could put almost anyone in danger of getting caught up in the crackdown.
The pumped-up surveillance dragnet also includes services run by private contractors like Babel Street, which trawl immigrants’ social media accounts to collect personal information.
Once that information is collected, agencies like DHS and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) use it to track locations of immigrants, map out their family trees and justify arrest warrants and deportation decisions.
I’m doing Eugene dirty, but he always comes to mind.