SurveillanceHigh
Buenos Aires Government Reportedly Used Children's Personal Data in Facial Recognition System for Fugitives
- Occurred
- Apr 24, 2019
- Published
- Oct 9, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Beginning in April 2019, the Buenos Aires city government reportedly used data from Argentina’s CONARC fugitive database, including children’s identities and reference photos, in its live Facial Recognition System for Fugitives (SRFP). Human Rights Watch found at least 166 children had appeared in CONARC between 2017 and 2020 and warned that the system exposed them to privacy violations and elevated risks of false matches.
Developers
- Surveillance technology developers
- NtechLab
- Facial recognition system developers
- Danaide S.A.
Deployers
- Government of Argentina
- Buenos Aires city government
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- Minors
- General public of Buenos Aires
- General public of Argentina
- General public
- Buenos Aires children
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition system used for tracking and false arrests constitutes surveillance harm with significant legal consequences.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8