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Argentina’s security ministry creates an AI unit to patrol social media and predict crime

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Source: ChequeadoAlso reported by Abogados.com.ar

Argentina’s Ministry of Security created the Unit of Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security (UIAAS) through Resolution 710/2024, published in the Boletín Oficial on 29 July 2024. The unit, run from the ministry’s cybercrime directorate with federal police and security forces, is to monitor open social networks and websites, use machine learning on past crime data to predict offences and analyse camera footage in real time with facial recognition. Researchers and digital rights groups including Fundación Vía Libre and CELE criticised its vague scope and the risk of biased profiling.

Why it matters

People in Argentina face police use of AI for online monitoring and crime prediction under a ministerial resolution, with no statute setting limits on the unit’s powers.

When
29 Jul 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0178
Where
Argentina
Who
Ministry of Security (Argentina)

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Chequeado and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2024-0178: “Argentina’s security ministry creates an AI unit to patrol social media and predict crime.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Jul 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/ar-security-ministry-ai-unit-2024-07/ (source: Chequeado).

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