A surveillance tower in Mexico becomes an unsettling landmark for privacy advocates

The building will have 1,791 automated license plate readers. 3,065 pan-tilt-zoom cameras. 74 drones. Live feeds from cameras owned by neighborhood businesses and residents. Biometric filters running constantly to support facial recognition. Connections to infrastructure throughout the city. Those monitoring tools and many others will be embedded in Mexico’s Torre Centinela (Sentinel Tower), a nearly

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