A Virtual Tour of Surveillance Technology at the US-Mexico Border

In pursuing its agenda of security theater, the US government has turned the border into a testing ground for invasive surveillance technologies spy blimps, surveillance towers, license plate readers, and footstep sensors buried in the ground. These technologies are ineffective and wasteful, but it is borderland communities that pay the highest price in civil liberties and human rights. In this interactive session, Dave Maass, Director of Investigations at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, introduces the wide range of surveillance technologies deployed at the US-Mexico border and guides participants in spotting them in real time using Google Street View on their laptops or phones.

Dave Maass leads investigations into police surveillance and border technology at EFF and manages the Atlas of Surveillance project at the University of Nevada, Reno.