Toddlers Are Being Scooped Up in Buenos Aires’ Live Facial Recognition Dragnet
<p>More than 160 children, some as young as one year old, were placed on Argentina’s national criminal database in the last three years, according to a new <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/09/argentina-child-suspects-private-data-published-online" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">report</a> from Human Rights Watch (HRW), and their faces were uploaded into Buenos Aires’ city live facial recognition database.</p>
<p>Buenos Aires’ facial recognition has a history of failures, as <em>OneZero</em> <a href="https://onezero.medium.com/the-u-s-fears-live-facial-recognition-in-buenos-aires-its-a-fact-of-life-52019eff454d" rel="noopener">reported</a> earlier this year. In 2019, a man named Guillermo Ibarrola was wrongfully detained for six days based on a misentry into CONARC, the national database of citizens wanted for serious crimes.</p>
<p>The new report suggests that even toddlers could be found on the publicly listed database, listed as wanted criminals. The inclusion of children in this criminal database violates <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">international law</a> protecting the privacy of children suspected of crimes.</p>
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