Argentina's environment for internet freedom is relatively robust: Freedom House scored it 71 out of 100 in Freedom on the Net 2025 and recorded no blocked social media platforms. Blocking happens through the courts. Most blocks concern online gambling, which each province regulates differently, and the regulator ENACOM publishes the blocked sites with copies of the court orders. Football piracy is the other target: in July 2024 a court ordered more than 50 illegal sports-streaming sites linked to Fútbol Libre and Megadeportes blocked, after a complaint from the Alliance Against Audiovisual Piracy.
Monitoring has grown. In May 2024 the Ministry of Security's Resolution 428/2024 authorised federal forces to carry out cyberpatrolling, searching open social media and other public sources, with AI tools, for specified crimes such as drug dealing and terrorism. In July 2024 President Javier Milei created the Artificial Intelligence Unit Applied to Security, for predictive policing, facial recognition and social media monitoring. Rights groups warned that the tools could be turned on journalists and political opponents and would encourage self-censorship.
Data retention has a court history. A 2003 data retention law was found to violate privacy rights, and the Supreme Court upheld that ruling in 2009. Providers must share information with the authorities when legally requested, and mobile users must register their identity before buying a phone or prepaid SIM card. In January 2024 the European Commission confirmed that Argentina's data protection remains adequate for transfers from the EU.
GhostShield has no server in Argentina, so it cannot give you an Argentine IP address. The closest locations are Miami and New York, both in the United States. GhostShield uses standard WireGuard.
International Privacy Standards
Internet freedom varies significantly by country. Organizations like Freedom House track global internet freedom annually, while the EU's GDPR has set new standards for data protection worldwide. Reporters Without Borders monitors press freedom and digital access restrictions globally.
A VPN helps you maintain consistent privacy protections regardless of which country you're browsing from, ensuring your data stays encrypted and your activity stays private.
The privacy landscape in Argentina
Cyberpatrolling under Resolution 428/2024 must, on paper, respect data protection law and freedom of expression, but digital rights groups criticised its vague principles and the lack of an oversight authority. Patrolling looks at open sources, so a VPN does not hide what you post publicly.
News sites are targets. In April 2025 the news outlet Perfil was hacked by a group called Gov.Eth and knocked offline for about an hour, one of several outlets hacked during Freedom House's 2025 review period.
Your phone number is tied to your ID through SIM registration. A VPN does not change that, but it keeps your browsing private from the network. It does not stop a convincing fake login page, so the usual care with links and codes still applies.
Top reasons people use a VPN in Argentina
At home, a VPN keeps the sites you visit away from your provider and from whoever runs the Wi-Fi you are on, including public Wi-Fi in cafes and airports.
For journalists and activists, a VPN is one layer of protection among several. Freedom House recorded hacking attempts and threats against the journalist Hugo Alconada Mon over his reporting, and hacks of several news websites between June 2024 and May 2025.
Argentines abroad cannot get an Argentine address from GhostShield, so services that play only in Argentina stay out of reach. Star+ no longer exists as a separate service: Disney folded it into Disney+ across Latin America in 2024.