Domestic Surveillance Is Expanding With New, AI-Powered Tools

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The episode discusses the expansion of domestic surveillance through AI-powered tools and the implications for privacy rights.

The Department of Homeland Security is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access to personal data and whereabouts of millions of people. WSJ investigative reporter Hannah Critchfield explains the latest on the technology, and how it’s being deployed. Plus, WSJ Supreme Court reporter James Romoser joins to break down the battle over whether geofence warrants are an unconstitutional invasion of privacy. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Host: The Wall Street Journal

Guests: Hannah Critchfield, James Romoser

Topics covered

• domestic surveillance
• AI tools
• privacy invasion
• geofence warrants
• federal agents
• personal data

Keywords

• surveillance
• AI
• privacy
• geofence warrants
• Department of Homeland Security
• personal data
• federal agents

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Organizations: Department of Homeland Security, WSJ, The Wall Street Journal

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