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...
“border authorities and their supporters in Congress are continuing to promote unproven, AI-driven technologies as the latest remedy for years of failures, including the ones voiced in the memo obtained by NBC News. These systems involve cameras controlled by algorithms that automatically identify and track objects or people of interest. But in an age when algorithmic errors and bias are being identified nearly everyday in every sector including law enforcement, it is unclear how this technology has earned the trust of the government.”
It’s easy to conclude that the intent here was always to establish an automated general threat of harm - to all poor people in sight of these towers.
We’ve known for almost 20 years that it’s not converging on anything like a solution to the excuses given for setting it up.
But spending that money starts to make sense when examined through a lens of a mindset of open class warfare.
It’s easy to conclude that the intent here was always to establish an automated general threat of harm - to all poor people in sight of these towers.
We’ve known for almost 20 years that it’s not converging on anything like a solution to the excuses given for setting it up.
But spending that money starts to make sense when examined through a lens of a mindset of open class warfare.