The economic crisis, frozen salaries and job insecurity in Buenos Aires teaching They relegated some of the demands that had been present on the claims agenda for years.
One of them was the forceful rejection of the installation of the controversial biometric teacher attendance system in all Buenos Aires schools and, finally, Macrismo managed to impose its position at the beginning of the 2026 school year.
It is a tool that requires teachers register your entry and exit using a fingerprint. As explained by the Buenos Aires Executive, the measure aims to consolidate “an agile, transparent and unified system”.
The arguments that reject the presenteeism system
Teaching unions consider that these devices are a new control system and another attempt at persecution and discipline towards education workers; at the same time, they attribute the installation of these devices to “a new deal” between CABA and private companies.
This measure is added to the installation of security cameras inside some Buenos Aires schoolswhich record all the movement of teachers, students and driving teams.
In July 2025, the Union of Education Workers warned that “The Government was suddenly trying to double the number of schools for the implementation of the fingerprint system.”
Through a statement, the majority teaching union of CABA reported that on July 10 of last year “The GCBA ordered the installation of fingerprint registration devices as a new control system. attendance unexpectedly and without prior notice in schools that were not planned in the pilot test. This surprise decision in school buildings, without any official information, “Not only is it messy, but it also generates discomfort throughout the educational community.”.
In the document, the UTE points out that the union “was present in the institutions to stop the installation In schools where there was no type of official regulation to support the pilot test launched less than a month ago, it could not yet be evaluated by any entity, so the duplication of it seems “kamikaze” to us.”
For its part, the ADEMYS teaching association, Last September, he denounced that the GCBA deepens the mistreatment of teaching working conditions“, by wanting to “impose the fingerprint to prove teacher presenteeism, this being a serious attempt to persecute and discipline teaching.”
The statement warns: “This advance implies a new negotiation of the PRO Governmentwhich aims to make million-dollar contracts irregularly for the acquisition of this service, which will only be used to intimidate teachers. They allocate money to friendly companies, while they put a limit on teacher salaries that loses day by day against the advance of the rise in prices.”
Who handles private teacher data?
The database is in charge of the General Directorate of Planning and Operational Control, an area dependent on the Undersecretariat. According to resolution No. 25/SECRH/11, all information stored must be protected by an encryption system that meets international security standards.
After a request for access to public information requested by the Eforo Foundation for your portal TheAuditorthe Buenos Aires Ministry of Education assured: “This seeks to guarantee that the data cannot be altered or accessed improperly. Furthermore, The system must have an internal audit that records all operations carried out and establish those directly responsible for the control of that information,” the document states.
In another section of the document, the undersecretary recalls that “the registration and administration of biometric data responds to Law 1845 on Protection of Personal Data. They must be kept in files, registries, databases or databases of the public sector of the City of Buenos Aires and the right to honor, privacy and informational self-determination must be ensured.
That is to say, People must be clearly informed about the use of their biometric datagive your consent to that use and have the possibility of accessing, correcting or requesting the deletion of that data if you wish.
