Title page
Contents
Summary 4
01. Introduction 5
02. The controversy surrounding facial recognition technology 8
03. Facial recognition rollouts: trends in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo 13
04. A question of politics? Deployment in spite of the human rights risks 29
05. The way forward: insights from other jurisdictions 35
06. To ban or to regulate facial recognition in Latin America? The debate 41
About the author 47
Acknowledgments 48
Boxes
Box 1. Law enforcement use of facial recognition in public spaces: the human rights impact 11
Box 2. Argentina and Brazil: the depth of the public debate on facial recognition 33