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Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Built on AI Surveillance and Disregard for Due Process
May 21, 2025 Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Built on AI Surveillance and Disregard for Due Process This piece was first published by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In March, officials at the US State Department revealed that they would use artificial intelligence to revoke the visas of “foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups.” The new program, known as “Catch and Revoke,” will scan social media accounts and is part of a broader uptick in the US government’s use of AI-powered surveillance, with the goal of combating antisemitism, terrorism, and illegal immigration.
Through a combination of digital technology and a decentralized but well-organized network of bureaucrats, spies, and informants, the Chinese Communist Party intrusively monitors its citizens for the purpose of repressing certain ethnic and religious identities, silencing political dissent, and preventing public demonstrations. Clearview AI, a US company that offers facial-recognition technology, has been sued in the United States, France, and the Netherlands for privacy violations related to its alleged practice of scraping the internet and social media platforms to compile its extensive database of online facial images. Separately, an investigation into hacked files from Gravy Analytics, a location data company, revealed that advertising firms had likely exploited thousands of applications—including popular apps used for gaming, dating, fitness, period and pregnancy tracking, email, and religious prayer—to monitor users without their knowledge.
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