Bell #WhyThey’re Watching Us made a call to demand transparency from the company offers mass surveillance technology in Latin America.

During 2020 together @adcrights, @lapinbr and @LaLibreTech we try to contact companies that manufacture and supply mass surveillance technology to LATAM countries. To date we have not received a response.
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— Access Now | Latinoamérica (@accessnow_latam) February 18, 2022

Why?

Organizations that fight for people’s digital rights, Access Nowmove requests on social networks as a follow-up to a monitoring report published last year.

It was highlighted that many Latin American governments were eager to buy this technology and accelerate the implementation of massive biometric surveillance. Meanwhile, the company providing this technology spends without realizingAre you selling surveillance technology used throughout Latin America without adequate transparency or public scrutiny.

It is noteworthy that most of the biometric surveillance implemented in Latin America is obtained directly or indirectly from companies in Asia (Israel, China, and Japan), Europe (UK and France) and the United States. AnyVision, Hikvision, Dahua, Cellebrite, Huawei, ZTE, NEC, IDEMIA, and VERINT.

This technology is used to identify us, individualize us, and track us wherever we go. They are tools that are incompatible with human rights and civil liberties.” describe the organization.

The campaign lasts for one month. Week 4 (from February 28 to March 4) and lastly, they urge those who wish to join to go protest messages on social networks tagged Oosto, Hikvision, Dahua, Cellebrite, Huawei, ZTE, NEC, IDEMIA or Verint.