To put the seriousness of this into perspective for the average HN reader: Short version: No one in Argentina trusts the police If what the EFF is writing ab

To put the seriousness of this into perspective for the average HN reader: Short version: No one in Argentina trusts the police If what the EFF is writing about comes to pass, every single despicable and ill intended individual in this country is going to have all biometrical data about any citizen he wants at his fingertips. This includes banks, drug dealers, telemarketers, and angry ex-husbands/wives. Long version: The police in Argentina is usually a completely corrupted institution, at the mercy of whatever drug lord, human trafficking organization, or powerful family that needs its service. This has been a problem since democracy returned to Argentina about 30 years ago, even with governments massively winning elections and having a really tight control of the whole executive and legislative branch of Argentina's federal government. This corrupt structure survived many purges and reforms announced and carried on by the executive branch of the federal government, and also the government of many provinces... even when those purges are continually announced in elections and in the usual political-propaganda-spaces as the end-all crime fighting solution. This goes to the extent that Cristina is not even relying on the police for the custody of some of the key infrastructure of the country. For example, its common for protected witnesses in criminal investigations about human trafficking to be under custody of the gendarmerie, because of the obvious police involvement in those type of crimes. Now, pressured by a (measurable but between the norm) increase in violent crimes, that is as usual blown out of proportion by the press, they are going to give the federal police access to huge amounts of biometrical data.