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0xensec Daily Roundup — April 25, 2026

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California’s coastal communities are now on the frontline of a growing debate over AI-powered surveillance infrastructure. The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), proposing to install an Anduril Industries “Sentry” Autonomous Surveillance Tower (AST) in San Clemente, is facing mounting scrutiny from privacy advocates and local officials. The technology at stake leverages advanced AI-driven computer vision to autonomously surveil, detect, track, and categorize humans, animals, and vehicles—scanning distances spanning entire cities. The tower’s actual siting, 1.5 miles inland from the coast and capable of monitoring residential neighborhoods up to nine miles away, starkly illustrates how originally border-centric surveillance technologies are rapidly extending their watchful reach into the domestic urban fabric of California [1].