Facial recognition in Latin America: Why civil society must fight back
perpetuate this invasive and harmful use of mass surveillance tools. Civil society must fight back. Acting without people’s knowledge — let alone their ability to consent — police and other local authorities in Buenos Aires, Brasilia, and Uruguay are increasingly using facial recognition technology for mass surveillance, identifying people’s faces and checking them against a database of suspects. Everyone surveilled in this way is effectively treated as a criminal, without having done anything wrong. Now, even as the global movement behind banning facial recognition gains steam, t...
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