Use of Facial Recognition by Uruguayan police

Use of Facial Recognition by Uruguayan police
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Deployment Status	Planned
Deployment Start Date
Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (1 February 2020, Speculative, , The software was acquired for a 3-year contract at the start of 2020. The Ministry of Interior in Uruguay has denied access to further information after this.)
City	Montevideo
Country	Uruguay
Involved Entities	CDT LATAM LLC, DDBA LTDA, TTY SA
Keywords
Technology Deployed	Herta Security Facial Recognition
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2, 3
Datasets Used	Unknown Dataset 0147
Deployment Type	Surveillance
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managed by	Ministry of Interior (Uruguay)
used by	Ministry of Interior (Uruguay)
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Information Certainty	0
Summary	[[Summary::The Ministry of the Interior of Uruguay has acquired facial recognition softwares (DDBA [representing Herta Security Recognition in Uruguay] through CDT LATAM LLC [Herta distributor in Latin America] in 2020 for a 3-year contract. The objective of this is to spot a criminal through the cameras and to recognise their identity automatically thanks to a database. The Ministry of the Interior in Uruguay has labelled all further information regarding the technology's use and any security protocol as "Reserved information" under the Uruguayan law of access to public information.]]

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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Herta Security Facial Recognition
Institutions ⠉	Herta Security
Datasets	Unknown Dataset 0147
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Status and Events:

Status	Planned
Events	Start (1 February 2020, Speculative, , The software was acquired for a 3-year contract at the start of 2020. The Ministry of Interior in Uruguay has denied access to further information after this.)
Start Date
End Date

Users:

Involved Entities	DDBA LTDA TTY SA CDT LATAM LLC
Managed by	Ministry of Interior (Uruguay)
Used by	Ministry of Interior (Uruguay)

Location:

City	Montevideo
Country ⠉	Uruguay

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Description

In Uruguay, the Senate recently approved the Budget Bill 2020- 2024. Like any other budget bill, it covers a broad range of government programs. But of particular relevance here is its creation of a facial identification database for public security purposes, and its authorization of the migration of all citizens’ data, including biometrics, from the Public Registry to the Interior Ministry (the police). Uruguay’s government had already bought an expensive facial recognition system earlier this year. 4

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