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...
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...
In this broadcast of the TV show "Es más complejo", aired on Canal de la Ciudad, Nicolás Lucca analyzes the impact of surveillance technologies on privacy and civil rights alongside Dr. Margarita Trovato. Trovato is an attorney who graduated from the University of...
Fundación Vía Libre Participated in the Informational Hearing on the National Sovereignty Bill. Deputy Juan Marino invited various civil society organizations and stakeholders to share their perspectives during the informational hearing held this Friday, September 25,...
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...
As part of the cycle of four talks on digital sovereignty in Argentina organized by the Becerra Chair (Convergence Politics, Communication Sciences Program, University of Buenos Aires), Beatriz Busaniche participated in the panel "The Digital Dispute: Updating the...
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...
At the Vía Libre Foundation, we have long emphasised the need to reform the Personal Data Protection Act No. 25,326, which was enacted in a context where the challenges facing data protection were very different from those of today; we therefore welcome initiatives to...
On May 22, 2026, the Ministry of Human Capital, led by Sandra Pettovello, introduced the "Social Digital Twin" via a video on X (formerly Twitter). The platform was described as a system that would integrate citizen data from multiple government agencies to identify...
In this report, we analyse what the Argentine State is currently able to do with citizens’ personal data and what safeguards exist against this power, in a context shaped by the use of technology. We begin with a description of the data ecosystem that the Argentine...
Spyware is a type of malicious software that interferes with the normal operation of a device (computer, tablet, mobile phone) to collect information without the user’s knowledge and then sends it to an unauthorised third party. This means that it operates covertly...
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...