Facial Recognition System in Buenos Aires Triggers Police Checks Based on False Matches
February 5, 2024
Buenos Aires's facial recognition system mistakenly flagged innocent people as criminals, leading to wrongful stops and detentions. Judicial investigations indicate the technology may have been misused for unauthorized surveillance and data collection. Despite privacy risks, the system has been used widely without full disclosure of standards or safeguards,
- Alleged deployer
- government-of-argentina, government-of-buenos-aires, argentinean-ministry-of-security
- Alleged developer
- government-of-argentina
- Alleged harmed parties
- argentinean-citizens, buenos-aires-residents, guillermo-ibarrola
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/829
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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