In San Francisco, meanwhile, a lawsuit is underway against the operators of a number of nudify apps. In some instances, the complaint identifies the defendants by name, but in the case of Clothoff, the accused is only listed as "Doe," the name frequently used in the U.S. for unknown defendants. According to the website's imprint, Clothoff is operated out of the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires. But the company has concealed the true identities of its operators through the use of shell companies and other methods. For a time, operators even sought to mislead the public with a fake image, presumably generated by AI, of the purported head of Clothoff.

After a relaxing weekend away, Guillermo Ibarrola was walking out of a train station in Argentina's capital when police arrested him and accused him of a robbery committed hundreds of miles away in a place he had never visited. "It was a nightmare," Ibarrola told local media after the 2019 incident, which rights campaigners say highlights the risks of using facial recognition systems to survey populations. The system of 300 cameras linked to a national crime database -- dubbed Buenos Aires' Big Brother -- was suspended two years ago after a court found it may have been used to collect data on journalists, politicians and human rights activists, and ruled it unconstitutional.

China-linked hackers are increasingly moving beyond espionage and into the disturbing world of power grid attacks. Threat researchers at security software firm Symantec this week released new evidence that the Chinese hacking group known as APT41 infiltrated the power grid of an Asian nation. Some details of the latest intrusion echo a 2021 attack on India's power grid, suggesting the same hackers are responsible. In Argentina, a scandal is playing out over the use of facial recognition software in Buenos Aires. Despite laws that require authorities to limit searches to known fugitives, an investigation by a judge found that the system was used to look up people not wanted for any crimes.

This story was made possible with support from the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability Network. "And then the nightmare began," says Guillermo Ibarrola, recalling his arrest at the crowded train station in the city center of Buenos Aires where we stand. He points to the cameras at the end of the tracks, then his finger pans to a door at the edge of the large station hall of the heritage-listed building. "That's where they kept me for six days." He slept on bare concrete, in a small cell.

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Israel blamed Iran on Wednesday after what it said was a drone strike hit a tanker operated by an Israeli-owned firm carrying gas oil off the coast of Oman. The Pacific Zircon was "hit by a projectile approximately 150 miles off the coast of Oman ... on 15 November," Singapore-based firm Eastern Pacific Shipping which operates the vessel said in a statement, adding that there were no reports of casualties or any leakage of the cargo. "There is some minor damage to the vessel's hull but no spillage of cargo or water ingress," said the company which is owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer -- one of two sons of shipping magnate Sammy Ofer, who died in 2011. The tanker was carrying 42,000 tonnes of gas oil and bound for Buenos Aires, according to Samir Madani, co-founder of website TankerTrackers.com, The Bahrain-based United States Fifth Fleet said it was "aware of the incident".

It was launched by the Global Observatory for Urban AI, which is an initiative of the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights and led by CIDOB – the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, and the cities of Barcelona, London and Amsterdam. The programmes aim to help cities deploy AI effectively and ethically through frameworks and real-world examples of projects, policies and strategies. The Atlas of Urban AI so far includes 106 initiatives in 36 cities, with municipalities invited to submit their own. Cities using AI include Los Angeles to better understand air quality, London in Canada to predict the likelihood of individuals becoming chronically homeless, and a chatbot from Buenos Aires. As well as providing information on individual projects, the mapping aims to track how cities' use of AI evolves over time.

Argentine national security agencies have acquired irregular access to the biometric records of seven million people, including the president, and footage from Buenos Aires for identifying demonstrators via facial recognition cameras when authorized to access a list of fewer than 50,000 persons of interest, reports Página 12 via Público. The Buenos Aires judge who discovered the scandal has now demanded explanations from the city's Minister of Security and Justice as to how biometric data of a set of 62 cases relating to the capital, including those of the Argentine president and vice president, were transferred from the national ID database – the Registro Nacional de las Personas (ReNaPer) – to the city's authorities, namely the police, reports Página 12/Público. A massive breach of ReNaPer's digital ID database was reported last year. Judge Roberto Andrés Gallardo has suspended the use of the facial recognition system in question and has given Marcel D'Alessandro, Minister of Security and Justice for the City of Buenos Aires Government, two days to explain how the biometrics of persons such as former president and current vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and fellow former president Alberto Fernández were used. D'Alessandro had previously said that the system had been deactivated during the pandemic.

In 2018, while the Argentine Congress was hotly debating whether to decriminalize abortion, the Ministry of Early Childhood in the northern province of Salta and the American tech giant Microsoft presented an algorithmic system to predict teenage pregnancy. They called it the Technology Platform for Social Intervention. Diego Jemio is a journalist, educator, and podcaster. He currently writes for the Clarín newspaper (Buenos Aires), Vértice (Mexico), and other media. He is the creator of the podcast Epistolar.