#bordersurveillance

Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2024-12-31

"Some of the most picturesque landscapes in the United States can be found along the border with Mexico. Yet, from San Diego’s beaches to the Sonoran Desert, from Big Bend National Park to the Boca Chica wetlands, we see vistas marred by the sinister spread of surveillance technology, courtesy of the federal government.

EFF refuses to let this blight grow without documenting it, exposing it, and finding ways to fight back alongside the communities that live in the shadow of this technological threat to human rights.

Here’s a galley of images representing our work and the new developments we’ve discovered in border surveillance in 2024."

eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/expo

#USA #Mexico #Surveillance #BorderSurveillance #BorderControl

Seebrücke Frankfurtseebrueckeffm
2024-12-18

🎧 Der gewalttätige Einsatz von
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@petramolnar @MigrationTechMonitor


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Miguel Afonso Caetanoremixtures@tldr.nettime.org
2024-10-28

"A new bombshell scoop from NBC News revealed an internal U.S. Border Patrol memo claiming that 30 percent of camera towers that compose the agency's "Remote Video Surveillance System" (RVSS) program are broken. According to the report, the memo describes "several technical problems" affecting approximately 150 towers.

Except, this isn't a bombshell. What should actually be shocking is that Congressional leaders are acting shocked, like those who recently sent a letter about the towers to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. These revelations simply reiterate what people who have been watching border technology have known for decades: Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border is a wasteful endeavor that is ill-equipped to respond to an ill-defined problem.

Yet, after years of bipartisan recognition that these programs were straight-up boondoggles, there seems to be a competition among political leaders to throw the most money at programs that continue to fail."

eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/us-b

#BorderSurveillance #Surveillance #USA #BorderControl #Immigration

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-06-23

EU continues to deliver equipment to Libyan Coast Guard for “ control and .” The coast guard is itself involved in or connected to the smuggling but also push-backs, drownings, shooting at rescue ships, and . euractiv.com/section/migration @immigration

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-04-14

Finland building razor-wire topped fence, and adding equipment, at Russian border—citing irrational fear of people from west Asia, exposing the easily exploitable racism of ibtimes.com/finland-starts-fen @immigration @geopolitics

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-04-08

Deaths at Canada-US border show dangers of new border rules, advocates say—Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and police all but confess the intent of border enforcement is to increase the chance of families drowning in St. Lawrence River cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ad @immigration

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-04-03

Centre-right Greek PM promises to expand Turkey border wall, supposed Radical Left-Progressive Alliance accuses Mitsotakis of pandering to far-right but simultaneously calls for keeping wall and adding more sophisticated anti-immigrant technology, e.g., “night vision cameras and coast guard vessels” thehour.com/news/politics/arti @immigration

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-04-03
Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-03-30

“What has become apparent after reporting on the industrial complex for more than a decade is that the border itself is also a proving ground and a showcase for products. It is a place where a person can see what in the future—like rubber-stamped autonomous towers—will be deployed to other parts of the country and world” theborderchronicle.com/p/auton @immigration

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-03-22

Studies show "a significant correlation between the location of , the routes taken by migrants and the locations of recovered human remains" voiceofsandiego.org/2023/03/20 @immigration @geography

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-03-20

Mapping Project Reveals Locations of U.S. Towers:
With migrant deaths at record highs, researchers say intensified is making a deadly problem much worse theintercept.com/2023/03/20/bo @immigration

A close-up shot of a Federal Telecommunications Institute camera lens, reflecting the desert landscape that it looks over below Coronado Peak in Hereford, Arizona
Seebrücke Frankfurtseebrueckeffm
2023-03-18

🇪🇸 Span. Banken, allen voran BBVA & Banco Santander finanzierten 2020 - 2022 mit € 13,5 Mill. laut einer Studie von Centre Delàs 12 Rüstungsunternehmen, die aus der der Profit schlagen.

elsaltodiario.com/industria-ar

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-03-16

“Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said on Wednesday that the government will strengthen security in the north in an effort to reduce the flow of unauthorized ,” including the addition of “infrastructure and surveillance improvements” news.yahoo.com/chiles-boric-st @immigration @geopolitics @geography

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-03-10

British and French leaders talk up ‘moment of reunion,’ and unveil new plan to tackle cross-Channel migration (i.e., increase surveillance tech company profits, further militarize their shared border, and drown people in the ocean) politico.eu/article/rishi-suna @immigration

Seebrücke Frankfurtseebrueckeffm
2023-03-05

🛩️ 🇪🇺 "Die Luftüberwachung im Grenzvorfeld ist ein wesentlicher Teil des Kampfes"

Mehr , mehr : Vor dem 🇪🇺 Treffen der -Innenminister*innen diese Woche in Brüssel verabschieden die -Staaten🇲🇹🇬🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇨🇾 eine Erklärung in

@matthimon
📰 ⤵️
digit.site36.net/2023/03/05/mo



Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-02-14

“EU leaders have agreed to toughen up border controls to keep out people trying to enter, with more funds pledged for cameras, drones and watchtowers at the bloc’s external borders.” amp.theguardian.com/world/2023 @immigration

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-02-11

@petramolnar says technologies would not stop people from crossing the Channel: “Instead, people will be forced to take increasingly dangerous routes, leading to loss of life. We have seen similar induced in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, as well as the US-Mexico border.” computerweekly.com/news/365530 @immigration

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵simulatedchollas
2023-02-07

Funded by the World Bank, a French company has used satellite imagery to help Niger Customs improve ‘border management,’ World Customs Organization wants the methods to be reproduced in other countries mag.wcoomd.org/magazine/wco-ne @immigration @geography @geopolitics

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