MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in Delhi used facial recognition software to screen crowds at a recent political rally – a first for India – raising concerns about privacy and mass surveillance amidst nationwide protests against a new citizenship law. Worldwide, the rise of cloud computing and artificial intelligence technologies have popularised the use of facial recognition for a range of applications from tracking criminals to catching truant students. In India, facial recognition technology was installed in several airports this year, and the government plans to roll out a nationwide system, likely to be the world’s biggest, to stop criminals and find missing children. Pictures of police holding video cameras at some protests have sparked concerns that images of protesters are being added to the facial recognition database. Yet the ruling has not checked the rollout of facial recognition technology, Gupta said.
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