Stella Calloni
Correspondent
The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, July 30, 2024, p. 22
Buenos Aires., Through resolution 710/2024 published yesterday in the Official bulletin of the Argentine Republic, the Artificial Intelligence Unit Applied to Security (Uiaas) was created to impose the “patrol of open social networks, applications and Internet sites, as well as the so-called deep Internet or dark web”, which will allow Analyze social media activities to detect potential threats, identify movements of criminal groups or anticipate unrestAmong other functions.
The Uiaas will be under the control of the Ministry of Security, headed by Patricia Bullrich, who has no experience with this system but has already used it, and will operate within the Directorate of Cybercrime and Cybernetic Affairs.
The creation of this unit – announced more than two months ago but which went unnoticed in the local media, although it was published in this newspaper – aggravates the situation of surveillance and persecution of the sectors that oppose the government of the far-right president Javier Milei.
Even at this time, strange movements are being reported, including the raid on the home of a young man in a Buenos Aires neighborhood, based on a conversation he had on the social network Instagram in which he supposedly threatened to shoot President Milei in the head.
Bullrich asked the federal court to authorize the search, with an astonishing police move, to access the social networks that the detained young man managed. According to the minister, this demonstrated an ideological thought with communist links that could lead to carrying out actions that threaten public order.
Is this or is it not a political persecution as has happened with others? This is the question that is being asked here. It also recalls an announcement made by Bullrich at the beginning of this year, saying that the Ministry of Security had discovered and prevented a plan, in which three men of Syrian-Lebanese origin were involved, to attack the government.
After being arrested and accused of planning an attack, the three were released by a federal court because no evidence could be found.
The serious thing is that the detainees had no political activity and the official did not even offer an apology.
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