Community-facilitated Networking Break: Surveilling the surveillants: monitoring facial recognition deployment in Latin America and Caribbean

Community-facilitated Networking Break: Surveilling the surveillants: monitoring facial recognition deployment in Latin America and Caribbean

Laboratório de Políticas Públicas e Internet - LAPIN

This session aims to reunite scholars and representatives from civil society and from any other group of interested stakeholders to discuss the developments on the deployment of facial recognition systems for surveillance purposes in Latin America and the Caribbean. The use of these models in the region has been increasing, frequently with a great focus on public security efficiency, but rarely with the proper concerns for human rights.  Therefore, those interested in the governance of surveillance technologies are invited to take part in a dynamic debate about the topic.

Representatives from the Laboratory of Public Policy and Internet - LAPIN, a Brazilian think tank, will kick off the session with a brief description of some cases of state surveillance by face recognition in Brazil.

After this exposition, LAPIN's members will open for other participants to share their experiences and ideas with regards to their specific countries. The discussion will be promoted by the launch of provocative questions. These questions will reflect hot and recent developments, practices and news involving the matter of facial recognition in the Latin American and Caribbean region.  Contact exchange will be fostered between participants by the circulation of a contact list in the beginning of the session.