{"id":148551,"date":"2021-11-24T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=148551"},"modified":"2021-11-24T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:36:08","slug":"use-of-facial-recognition-technology-by-police-is-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/use-of-facial-recognition-technology-by-police-is-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of facial recognition technology by police is dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Hyderabad city police is deploying lakhs of cameras connected in a real-time network managed by Hyderabad\u2019s Command and Control Centre and can be used for facial recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>In Hyderabad, an Integrated Police Command Control Centre has been set up, with a cost of Rs 800 crore. The center will allow the police to access real-time surveillance footage from the network of cameras that monitor the city.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous reports have emerged from Hyderabad about illegal search operations and police taking photographs of people on the road without any reason.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Facial Recognition Technology(FRT)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facial recognition technology identifies the distinctive features of a person\u2019s face, and it creates a biometric map using these features. Then an algorithm matches these features with possible individuals. The system searches across databases of millions of images and information gathered without knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the issues with FRT?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Surveillance practices like data analytics, social media analysis capabilities and facial recognition are alleged to be an attempt to <strong>control citizens\u2019 lives through technology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>International experience <\/strong>&#8211; The EU is in the process of banning this technology. Belgium, Luxembourg and multiple cities in the US have already banned this technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specific concerns linked to India:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-Supreme Court in its judgment has already recognized the Right to Privacy as the fundamental right. However, there is yet <strong>no privacy law in India<\/strong> to regulate data collection and to act as an oversight mechanism. The proposed &#8216;Personal Data Protection Bill 2019&#8217; is still stuck in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Without a law on privacy, public spaces will turn into sites of technological experimentation, where human rights are sidelined for profit and control.<\/p>\n<p>-In the name of the protection of women and children, public money is being spent on these technologies. However, there is yet no evidence of their effectiveness, further <strong>wasting public funds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-This Hyderabad model will <strong>motivate other<\/strong> state police departments and intelligence agencies to adopt similar measures throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>Use of facial recognition technology by police is dangerous<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Indian Express<\/strong> on 24th November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Hyderabad city police is deploying lakhs of cameras connected in a real-time network managed by Hyderabad\u2019s Command and Control Centre and can be used for facial recognition technology. In Hyderabad, an Integrated Police Command Control Centre has been set up, with a cost of Rs 800 crore. The center will allow the police to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/use-of-facial-recognition-technology-by-police-is-dangerous\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use of facial recognition technology by police is dangerous<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-148551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700528979},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}