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ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees (www.wbur.org)
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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

They are really going to be used for one thing: walking flock surveillance. They are going to be deployed around neighborhoods to see who they can spot that's latino looking enough or who's simply on their suspect list. Wanna bet if they will get the local police departments to deploy them for ICE as well? They will spot suspects, build a profile, and when they have enough ICE moves in.