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. This session focused on a public tender promoted by the Buenos Aires City Government to procure a new...
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...
On 31 December, the Executive Branch issued Emergency Decree (DNU 941/2025), reforming the functioning of the Argentine intelligence system. This was not done through a law debated in Parliament, but unilaterally during its recess. Why should you care? Because it...
Following the massive data leak that has come to light in recent hours, Fundación Vía Libre has requested all information related to the leak from the responsible authorities. We know that the leak originated from a private company (SudamericaData and/or...
On 7 March, we participated virtually in the regional thematic hearing ‘Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights’ organised by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) with the intention of analysing the challenges that artificial intelligence (AI)...
This article was originally published on the DiarioAR website on February 19, 2024. Written by Beatriz Busaniche, Vía Libre Foundation. The system was implemented by the Buenos Aires Government to identify fugitives from Justice but, among other things, it served to...