4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
The US has spent billions on surveillance towers, but hundreds of people have died near them. Here’s how to strengthen federal oversight.
Via MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border.
We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas surveilled by advanced, AI-enabled towers and later died nearby, where their bodies remained unnoticed for weeks or months. These cases reflect systemic flaws in the virtual wall: broken towers, algorithms that failed to detect people, and agents who simply did…
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