The Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires is once again pushing for the deployment of facial recognition systems in public spaces. Fundación Vía Libre, acting as amicus curiae (Friend of the Court), has filed a new motion in the lawsuit titled "O.D.I.A. y...
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Taylor-made AI. Why choose small models?
The offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Buenos Aires hosted our talk “Tailor-Made Artificial Intelligence,” delivered by Matías Bordone—a Computer Science graduate, industry programmer specializing in intelligent agents, and Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science...
What is the State hiding when it uses AI?
Pulso Ambiental No. 26 “A new world: the emergence of artificial intelligence” The State enthusiastically announces the implementation of artificial intelligence, but keeps confidential what types of software programs it hires and how they were trained. In this...
Faces Under Scrutiny: The Judiciary Analyzes a New Facial Recognition System in the City of Buenos Aires
by Margarita Trovato This Friday, September 25, a new hearing was held in the ongoing legal case over the use of facial recognition in the City of Buenos Aires (Odia and others vs.GCABA). This session focused on a public tender promoted by the Buenos Aires City...
Cartographies of Opacity: Spyware, Public Procurement, and Regulatory Fragmentation in Argentina
Vía Libre at Lavits, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, August 28, 2026. We presented the findings of two years of research into intrusive technologies in Argentina. In a panel titled “Cartographies of Opacity: Spyware, Public Procurement, and Regulatory Fragmentation in...
“Social Digital Twin” and the Privatization of Surveillance: The Argentine Laboratory for Predatory AI
Everything indicates that the current technological and political landscape in Argentine is aligning with global trends of digital control and massive data processing. In this context, our country could become an experimental territory for the implementation of...
Argentine Parliament: Fundación Vía Libre participated in the meeting to analyze Artificial Intelligence regulations.
On behalf of Fundación Vía Libre, Enrique Chaparro participated in the meeting of the Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Commission of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The meeting held last Tuesday, August 6, was the first of a series of meetings aimed at...






