Abstract

AVARO, Dante. Citizen Traceability and Democracy: An Approach from the Argentine Experience. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.231, pp.255-275. ISSN 0185-1918.

This paper tackles the relationship between democracy and vigilance, particularly through discussing the premise that increased surveillance equals less democracy. The author describes the National Tax and Social Identification System and the Federal Biometric Identification System for the Security of the Argentine Republic, and he then explores the weak institutional capacity to process factual disagreements regarding security/surveillance. Finally, based on the Argentine case, he proposes the institutional level of factual disagreements as a relevant dimension to understand how a democracy produces surveillance systems while still being a democracy.

Keywords : democracy; surveillance; ID cards; identity gap; public policies.