Facial Recognition System for Fugitives in Argentina

Facial Recognition System for Fugitives in Argentina
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Deployment Status	Stopped
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Deployment End Date
Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (25 April 2019, Documented, , No description) uses Record type Property:Has event End (12 April 2022, Documented, , The Sistema de Reconocimiento Facial de Prófugos was suspended due to an investigation that found that the system was used to access biometric data of 7 million people with no justified warrant.)
City	Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Involved Entities	Argentine Federal Police
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Technology Deployed	Unknown Products 0104
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1, 2, 3
Datasets Used	Conarc
Deployment Type	Fugitive Detection
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managed by	CMU
used by	Ministerio de Seguridad y Justicia de Argetina
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Summary	The Fugitive Facial Recognition System (SRFP) was introduced in 2019 in the city of Buenos Aires with the aim of detecting people wanted by the police. The SRPF was governed by a technical cooperation agreement between the National Registry of Persons (RENAPER) and the Ministry of Security of Buenos Aires. The signed agreement allowed them to access a database of approximately 40,000 people. With this agreement, the Government of Buenos Aires was able to use the 9,500 security cameras equipped with facial recognition software distributed in the capital, whose images reach the Urban Monitoring Center (Centro Urbano de Monitoreo), under the supervision of the Ministry of Security and Justice. Investigations were carried out at the Buenos Aires Ministry of Justice and Security and the Urban Monitoring Center (CMU), and it was determined that, between April 2019 and March 2022, the Ministry of Security and Justice of Argentina used the system of video cameras with facial recognition to access the biometric data of 7 million people, without a court order for it. Because of this finding, a judge signed a resolution on Tuesday, April 12, where the suspension of the facial recognition system was ordered. He held that the City of Buenos Aires was only authorized to extract biometric data from people required by justice. And he warned that the big number of searches of citizens, many known for their public performance, shows that the process could have been manipulated to obtain improper information illegally.

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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Fugitive Detection

Summary

The Fugitive Facial Recognition System (SRFP) was introduced in 2019 in the city of Buenos Aires with the aim of detecting people wanted by the police. The SRPF was governed by a technical cooperation agreement between the National Registry of Persons (RENAPER) and the Ministry of Security of Buenos Aires. The signed agreement allowed them to access a database of approximately 40,000 people. With this agreement, the Government of Buenos Aires was able to use the 9,500 security cameras equipped with facial recognition software distributed in the capital, whose images reach the Urban Monitoring Center (Centro Urbano de Monitoreo), under the supervision of the Ministry of Security and Justice. Investigations were carried out at the Buenos Aires Ministry of Justice and Security and the Urban Monitoring Center (CMU), and it was determined that, between April 2019 and March 2022, the Ministry of Security and Justice of Argentina used the system of video cameras with facial recognition to access the biometric data of 7 million people, without a court order for it. Because of this finding, a judge signed a resolution on Tuesday, April 12, where the suspension of the facial recognition system was ordered. He held that the City of Buenos Aires was only authorized to extract biometric data from people required by justice. And he warned that the big number of searches of citizens, many known for their public performance, shows that the process could have been manipulated to obtain improper information illegally.

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Unknown Products 0104
Institutions ⠉	DANAIDE S.A.
Datasets	Conarc
Search software

Status and Events:

Status	Stopped
Events	Start (25 April 2019, Documented, , No description) End (12 April 2022, Documented, , The Sistema de Reconocimiento Facial de Prófugos was suspended due to an investigation that found that the system was used to access biometric data of 7 million people with no justified warrant.)
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End Date

Users:

Involved Entities	Argentine Federal Police
Managed by	CMU
Used by	Ministerio de Seguridad y Justicia de Argetina

Location:

City	Buenos Aires
Country ⠉	Argentina

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Description

El Sistema de Reconocimiento Facial de Prófugos (SRFP) fue introducido en 2019 en la cuidad de Buenos Aires con el objetivo de ayudar a detectar personas buscadas por la policía. El SRPF se rige por un convenio de de cooperación técnica entre el Registro Nacional de las Personas (RENAPER) y el ministerio de Seguridad de Buenos Aires. El convenio suscrito solamente les permitía acceder a una base de datos de aproximadamente 40 mil personas. Gracias a este convenio el Gobierno de Buenos Aires pudo utilizar las 9.500 cámaras de seguridad equipadas con un software de reconocimiento facial distribuidas en la capital, cuyas imágenes llegan al Centro de Monitoreo Urbano, bajo la supervisión del Ministerio de Seguridad y Justicia. 1

On 12th April 2022, a judge in the city of Buenos Aires ordered the suspension of the capital city’s facial recognition system because it allowed access to the biometric data of millions of people without a search warrant. A system implemented in 2019 to support police searches for fugitives was used to obtain biometric data from political, social and trade union leaders, members of the judiciary, business people and journalists, news outlets reported. Among those affected is the leader of human rights organisation Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo), Estela Carlotto. The court ruling resulted from an amparo action filed by civil society organisation Observatorio de Derecho Informático Argentino (Argentina’s Observatory of IT Rights - ODIA) on the constitutionality and conventionality of the norms that implemented the facial recognition system. 4

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