Event Summary
The Argentinian government recently passed Decree 383/2025 and Resolution 828/2025, which authorizes the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) to carry out cyberpatrol tasks on social networks and public websites, carry out personal and vehicle searches, and detain people without a prior judicial warrant, in cases of well-founded suspicion or flagrancy, and for up to 10 hours. The decree and resolution were published on June 17, 2025 in the Official Gazette and are already in force. Its application is progressively implemented with immediate institutional impacts and structural effects on the way public security is exercised in digital and urban spaces. According to the authorities, these measures seek to strengthen the prevention and fight against complex federal crimes, inspired by models such as the FBI. However, human rights organizations, civil liberties specialists and various political sectors warned of serious implications for privacy, freedom of expression and judicial control, warning that the measure is implemented without legislative debate ( Página/12).
The new police powers erode constitutional guarantees, especially judicial control and the right to privacy and freedom of expression in digital environments. Human rights organizations (such as Amnesty International and HRW) have warned that the decree enables an “overloaded cyberpatrol” that can criminalize opinions or images on networks, as in previous cases during protests or quarantine. Civil society is affected by reduced protection from arbitrary detention, warrantless surveillance and digital intervention without effective levels of judicial control and transparency. In the future, the PFA could expand espionage practices and control of digital activism, affecting the legitimacy of public debate. The authorization of searches and detentions without judicial control leads to arbitrary detentions and deterrence of protest. The decree opens the door for the State to intervene in critical discourses without democratic filters. If not reversed, these measures consolidate a logic of punishment and political persecution under the cover of digital security, which crystallizes a serious institutional setback in terms of civil liberties.