Google Cloud is facilitating artificial intelligence-powered surveillance for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) along the southern border, according to federal contract documents reviewed by The Intercept, despite previous denials by its leadership that it would be involved in such work.
The project involves upgrading 50 towers with up to 100 cameras across six sites. These towers, originally built by Israeli defense contractor Elbit, will be enhanced with machine learning tools to automatically detect people and vehicles without requiring human monitoring.
