Apr 24, 2019Single source
Buenos Aires Government Reportedly Used Children's Personal Data in Facial Recognition System for Fugitives
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Beginning in April 2019, the Buenos Aires city government reportedly used data from Argentina’s CONARC fugitive database, including children’s identities and reference photos, in its live Facial Recognition System for Fugitives (SRFP). Human Rights Watch found at least 166 children had appeared in CONARC between 2017 and 2020 and warned that the system exposed them to privacy violations and elevated risks of false matches.
What this means for youChildren's photos and identities were reportedly pulled into a live police face-matching system, raising privacy and false-match risks for kids. Parents can ask their city or school whether any face recognition system holds children's photos, how long it keeps them, and whether they can ask for them to be removed.
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- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/76
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