Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋)

Author #TheWallsHaveEyes @thenewpress |#BorderTech ethnographies | @RefugeeLawLab + @Migration_Tech Monitor | Faculty Associate @BKCHarvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

In a breaking world, books are a labour of love. After 6 years, #TheWallsHaveEyes is (almost) here! It is a global story of border surveillance, where your body is your passport and matters of life and death are determined by algorithm.

📖May 21st https://t.co/tjt0tQ40nQ

[Julia Black @mjnblack]

HNY to me! New Thiel Foundation 990 (from 2023) just dropped. Always a fun way to follow Peter Thiel's interests. He's not a big giver (gave $4.3m in 2023), but even the small grants contain interesting clues about where his head is at.

Thread! 🧵

[Georgetown Privacy @GeorgetownCPT]

We are thrilled that these smart, talented, creative and caring individuals have agreed to serve on our new advisory board. They will support us as we work towards a world where privacy is for everyone.

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

Guaranteed growth for the border industrial complex as well

https://t.co/hS6wOWjn0k

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: Palantir and Anduril, two of the largest US defence technology companies, are in talks with about a dozen competitors like SpaceX and OpenAI to form a consortium that will jointly bid for US government work. https://t.co/mSQZzEEJCJ

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

"When we awaken to the call of beauty,” [Irish poet John} O’Donohue writes, “we become aware of new ways of being in the world.”

Beautiful end-of-year reflection by @memomiller The Border Chronicle 🦂🔥on borders, ecocide, pecan trees and watermelons too

https://t.co/7xlkibxND2

[CSTV @UW_CSTV]

Canada Border Services is adopting a #FacialRecognition system "ReportIn" to track migrants, an alternative to worse options they argue but raising concerns about equity, consent, and #privacy, explains @nkeung

https://t.co/EDoFQ3MdLw #AI @_PMolnar

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

@VWLegal Right? Imagine how many people could be supported with $1.3 BILLION - housing, health, psychosocial support, asylum claims etc

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

Quick reflection for @ConversationCA on Canada’s announcement to expand surveillance at its US border to “appease” incoming Trump administration, bowing down to politics and fears of tariffs over saving human lives and international human rights obligation https://t.co/zBktJgZbqJ

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

We were in the middle of so many things that I didn’t have time to appropriately share this article which made it clear that we had to spin out of fiscal sponsorship and into our own organization🧵

https://t.co/4hPNOLzuuS

[The Citizen Lab @citizenlab]

Check out this powerful story from @CBCTheNational where host @adriearsenault speaks with the Citizen Lab’s @RonDeibert and @nouraaljizawi about the growing issue of foreign intimidation of exiled dissidents in Canada. https://t.co/qsmoDKymFs

[Lorenzo Tondo @lorenzo_tondo]

EXCLUSIVE After the fall of #Assad in #Syria, EU members are attempting to force out #Syrian #asylum seekers by pressing them into signing voluntary return documents,often with use of violence. My latest. ⁦@NoNameKitchen1⁩ #refugees #Bulgaria #Euripe https://t.co/7ja1g1EewT

[Law & Disorder @LawAndDis]

The Violent Use of AI as Border Enforcement

NOW STREAMING

@_PMolnar, head of @RefugeeLawLab, @migration_tech monitor and author of ‘The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’

In conversation with host @realcatbrooks

https://t.co/s8MWhzDDde

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

Details on parameters of the tech continue to not be totally clear, but some indication of what an expansion of the surveillance tower system could look like:
https://t.co/G36Witspns
writes @shaun_robs @vtdigger

Links to 2021 plans here: https://t.co/Zb268qlUEG

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

🚨The Great White North: To appease the incoming Trump administration (and avoid a 25% import tariff), Canada expands #bordertech, including counter surveillance for the RCMP, 24/7 surveillance btw ports of entry, helicopters, drones, and mobile towers
https://t.co/kfyScmrz2G

[Petra Molnar (@petramolnar.com on BlueSky🦋) @_PMolnar]

Proposing measures to “strengthen the integrity of the immigration system,” remove “irritants for the US,” introduce legislative amendments to expand Canada’s discretion to revoke, change, cancel existing applications when “deemed in the public interest” and “illegitimate claims”

[Nicholas Keung 姜巧樂 @nkeung]

#BorderSecurityPlan: RCMP will deploy a new Aerial Intelligence Task Force comprised of helicopters, drones, and mobile surveillance towers. Counter-drone technology will support RCMP officers and provide 24/7 surveillance between ports of entry. 1/
https://t.co/y9LirRIeSC