SurveillanceHigh
Facial Recognition System in Buenos Aires Triggers Police Checks Based on False Matches
- Occurred
- Feb 5, 2024
- Published
- Feb 5, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Buenos Aires's facial recognition system mistakenly flagged innocent people as criminals, leading to wrongful stops and detentions. Judicial investigations indicate the technology may have been misused for unauthorized surveillance and data collection. Despite privacy risks, the system has been used widely without full disclosure of standards or safeguards,
Developers
- Surveillance technology developers
- Government of Argentina
- Facial recognition system developers
Deployers
- Government of Buenos Aires
- Government of Argentina
- Argentinean Ministry of Security
- Law enforcement
- Facial recognition system deployers
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- Guillermo Ibarrola
- General public of Argentina
- General public
- Buenos Aires residents
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition misuse causing wrongful detentions and unauthorized surveillance constitutes a serious privacy and civil rights violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8