Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Life and Migration Under Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Thursday, April 3
1:00 - 2:00 PM Pacific

EFF has built up a robust focus on digital civil liberties at the U.S.-Mexico border, including challenging the warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices and the massive increase in surveillance infrastructure throughout the region. Our team has gathered firsthand knowledge of local tech concerns through a series of visits to communities on both sides of the border where we interviewed journalists and activists, and mapped and documented the proliferation of border surveillance tools. As a result of this work, EFF has created a traveling exhibit featuring information and photographs from several years of research and advocacy.

Join our panel featuring EFF Director of Investigations Dave Maass, EFF Senior Policy Analyst Matthew Guariglia, Todd Miller, Pedro Rios, and Petra Molnar as they explore digital civil liberties at the U.S.-Mexico border and the work that brought the exhibit to life.

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This event will be recorded and available on our Youtube page and the Internet Archive. Recordings of previous streams can be found here.

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