Privacy and Mass Surveillance in the Agentic Era

The convergence between massive urban cameras, facial recognition, behavioral analysis AI agents and automated cross-referencing of personal databases has produced an unprecedented state and private surveillance capacity. This whitepaper analyzes the state of deployment of agentic surveillance in Latin America during 2022-2026, articulates the specific democratic risks derived from informational power asymmetry, and proposes an own Ibero-American regulatory framework articulated on six constitutional principles: necessity, proportionality, transparency, judicial control, right to non-recognition and reversibility. It argues that the region should not mechanically replicate either the Chinese model of integral surveillance or the U.S. model of massive private capture, but should articulate an own doctrine consistent with its constitutional tradition of rights.