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California Coastal Community Must Reject CBP's AI-Powered Surveillance Tower

Electronic Frontier Foundation·Dave Maass·about 1 month ago
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking permission from the California city of San Clemente to install an Anduril Industries surveillance tower on a cliff that would allow for constant monitoring of entire coastal neighborhoods. The proposed tower is Anduril's Sentry, part of the Autonomous Surveillance Tower (AST) program. While CBP says it will primarily monitor the coastline for boats carrying migrants, it will actually be installed 1.5 miles inland, overlooking the bulk of the 62,000-resident city. By CBP's own public statement, the system–which combines video, radar, and computer vision–is " constantly scanning " for movement and identifying and tracking objects an AI algorithm decides are of interest. Depending on the model–the photos provided by CBP indicate it is a long range maritime model–the camera could see as far as nine miles, which would cover the entire city and potentially see as far as neighboring Dana Point.…

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