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CCTV REFERENCE EVIDENCE
6.02 cameras / 1k
136,920 reported cameras in Mexico City. Reference-city evidence only; national scope is not inferred.
Open CCTV sourceTHE EVIDENCE STACK
Seven records
Different claims
Every measure has its own source, date, and scope. The country profile keeps them distinct by design.
FACE / BIOMETRIC
Documented active use
Mexico City and state-level deployments · 2025
Civil-society and public reporting describes facial-recognition use in Mexico City and several states. Coverage is uneven, so the record is not a national intensity score.
AI USE SCOPE
Facial identification
2025-09 · Medium confidence
Public reporting describes a state-level selection of live facial-recognition technology to identify missing people and suspects.
The source concerns a state-level selection and does not establish nationwide deployment or a uniform operating policy.
Biometric Update · state selectionPRIVATE-CAMERA LINK
Documented local integration
Mexico City C5 evidence · 2025
Public reporting describes local programmes connecting private cameras to Mexico City’s C5 ecosystem. Operational details could not be independently retrieved in this review session.
SAFEGUARDS CONTEXT
46.6 / 100
WJP 2025 Factor 4.6: protection from arbitrary interference with privacy in practice. The score changed -1.9 points from 2024.
Open WJP sourceSUPPLIER / PROCUREMENT
Evidence gap retained
Not documented in this release
No attributed supplier, public body, and surveillance-relevant system chain was verified for this pilot record.
An evidence gap is not a finding that no supplier, contract, or public procurement exists.
No comparable public source located in this reviewINCIDENTS & REDRESS
Official finding
25 Apr 2022 · Mexico · proposed national mobile-phone user registry
PANAUT biometric mobile-register ruling
Mexico’s Supreme Court invalidated the planned PANAUT registry, which would have required biometric information including fingerprints or eye biometrics for mobile-phone users.
This entry concerns a proposed registry and does not describe the full range of biometric or surveillance practice in Mexico.
Reuters · Mexico Supreme Court ruling report Open incidents & redressDATA INFRASTRUCTURE & JURISDICTION
Where data may sit, and what can govern it
These are separate contextual records. Data-centre capacity is not evidence of surveillance access; legal powers are not evidence of their use.
CONTEXT, NOT PROOF
Infrastructure capacity evidence is market-based; legal and cloud-policy implementation can differ across federal and local authorities.
Medium confidenceInfrastructure-policy context
2025
National digital-infrastructure policy is publicly discussed, but the pilot avoids using third-party capacity estimates as a cross-country metric.
Sector-specific localisation and transfers
2026
Public legal summaries describe sector-specific requirements and informed-consent transfer conditions; no blanket localisation rule is coded.
Digital-government cloud policy
2025
A published sectoral programme describes digital-transformation governance; actual provider and workload arrangements remain implementation-specific.
Procedural provider-access powers
2026
Article 303 material describes retained-data and location-access powers in criminal procedure. It does not establish ongoing authority access.
SOURCE HISTORY
When the record changed.
The timeline preserves source vintages and review dates so changes can be examined rather than announced without a record.
- 2024
- 2025-06CCTV evidence source
Mexico City: 136,920 reported cameras; 6.02 per 1,000 people in the documented reference place.
Open source - 2025
- 2025Facial-recognition record
Civil-society and public reporting describes facial-recognition use in Mexico City and several states. Coverage is uneven, so the record is not a national intensity score.
Open source - 2025Camera-integration record
Public reporting describes local programmes connecting private cameras to Mexico City’s C5 ecosystem. Operational details could not be independently retrieved in this review session.
Open source - 2025-09AI use-scope record
Facial identification · Live public space · Automated alert. Public reporting describes a state-level selection of live facial-recognition technology to identify missing people and suspects.
Open source - 2026-08Supplier / procurement record
No attributed supplier, public body, and surveillance-relevant system chain was verified for this pilot record.
No comparable public source located in this review - 2025Data-infrastructure context
National digital-infrastructure policy is publicly discussed, but the pilot avoids using third-party capacity estimates as a cross-country metric.
Open source - 2026Lawful-access context
Article 303 material describes retained-data and location-access powers in criminal procedure. It does not establish ongoing authority access.
Open source - 25 Apr 2022Incident / redress record
Official finding: Mexico’s Supreme Court invalidated the planned PANAUT registry, which would have required biometric information including fingerprints or eye biometrics for mobile-phone users.
Open source - 2026-08Layer evidence review
Record category: Paired layer record. This version preserves gaps rather than treating them as evidence of absence.
No comparable public source located in this review
REVIEWED PUBLIC UPDATES
Accepted additions and corrections.
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