(FILES) A man has his iris scanned with an orb, a biometric data scanning device, in exchange for the Worldcoin cryptocurrency in Buenos Aires on March 22, 2024. Amnesty International on August 18, 2026 denounced the growing use of surveillance technologies by Argentine President Javier Milei's government against his critics. In a report entitled "Sensing the surveillance state," Amnesty said the creation of databases of protesters, the monitoring of their social media and the use of facial recognition technology was stifling dissent. (Photo by JUAN MABROMATA / AFP via Getty Images)