Trump’s surveillance towers can see into neighborhoods — and are ‘always watching’

President Donald Trump’s expanding AI border surveillance system can watch people leaving their homes, children on playgrounds and even inside a bedroom window, a New York Times investigation found.More than a million people in the United States and Mexico live within potential view of the AI-powered towers, according to the newspaper’s analysis. “It can see when I leave, who I’m with, who’s coming and going from our house,” said Eloisa Cavazos, whose Mission, Texas, home sits across from a tower. “It follows you.”The Trump administration has secured more than $1 billion to build 1,500 new AI towers, expanding a “smart wall” whose cameras “are always watching,” the Times reported.To illustrate the reach, Times reporters used drone footage to approximate tower views. Their demonstration showed children on an elementary school playground, people entering and leaving homes, and vehicles traveling through town.Moving beyond one tower's reach does not necessarily put someone out...