oatmeal<p>Tech-washing / Google quietly building Trump's AI surveillance wall</p><p>Despite previous assurances from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> project upgrading video surveillance towers in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/03/go</span><span class="invisible">ogle-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/techwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>techwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sureveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sureveillancecapitalism</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/technoimperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technoimperialism</span></a></p>