Argentina Makes AI Surveillance the Newest Battlefield for Personal Privacy
"Under President Javier Milei, Argentina spent $1.2 million between 2024 and 2025 on surveillance technologies, according to Amnesty. The purchases included social-media monitoring platforms, facial-recognition systems, drones, ground stations, thermal cameras and tools transmitting images in real time. Some sweep social networks, websites, the dark web and public databases, assembling information at a scale no human team could match.
Amnesty based its report on 21 interviews with journalists, activists, pensioners, young people and human-rights defenders, plus procurement documents and information requests. The alarming finding was behavioral. Some journalists, activists and migrants said they had begun censoring themselves or reducing their presence at demonstrations because they feared identification.
Surveillance concentrates where authorities already expect disorder. Those locations generate more records, which justify more monitoring. Migrants, protesters and marginalized communities become overrepresented in the data, not necessarily because they offend more, but because the state watches them more closely."
https://latinamericanpost.com/analysis-en/argentina-makes-ai-surveillance-the-newest-battlefield-for-personal-privacy/
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