EFF, TEDIC, and CEJIL filed a complaint against Paraguay over the government’s refusal to disclose how police facial-recognition surveillance is being used in Asunción. The case centers on cameras installed in 2019 by the Ministry of the Interior and National Police, and seeks details on contracts, protocols, biometric-data processing, and whether authorities performed human-rights or data-protection impact assessments before deployment.
Why it matters: This matters to the public because facial recognition can enable large-scale biometric surveillance with little visibility into how people’s data is collected or used. The case could force more transparency and oversight in Paraguay and help set a precedent for surveillance safeguards across Latin America.
Veridiana Alimonti
2026.06.25
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This article establishes a new tracked story because it is a specific legal and human-rights challenge tied to Paraguay’s use of facial-recognition surveillance and there is no existing tracked story about this same underlying event.
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