India Used Facial Recognition Tech To Identify 1,100 Individuals at a Recent Riot (techcrunch.com) 19
Law enforcement agencies in India used facial recognition to identify more than 1,100 individuals who took part in communal violence in the national capital last month, a top minister said in the lower house of the parliament on Wednesday. From a report: In what is the first admission of its kind in the country, Amit Shah, India's home minister, said the law enforcement agencies deployed a facial recognition system, and fed it with images from government-issued identity cards, including 12-digit Aadhaar that has been issued to more than a billion Indians and driving licenses, "among other databases," to identify alleged culprits in the communal violence in northeast Delhi on February 25 and 26.
"This is a software. It does not see faith. It does not see clothes. It only sees the face and through the face the person is caught," said Shah, responding to an individual who had urged New Delhi to not drag innocent people into the facial surveillance. The admission further demonstrates how the Indian government has rushed to deploy facial recognition technology in the absence of regulation overseeing its usage. Critics have urged the government to hold consultations and formulate a law before deploying the technology.
"This is a software. It does not see faith. It does not see clothes. It only sees the face and through the face the person is caught," said Shah, responding to an individual who had urged New Delhi to not drag innocent people into the facial surveillance. The admission further demonstrates how the Indian government has rushed to deploy facial recognition technology in the absence of regulation overseeing its usage. Critics have urged the government to hold consultations and formulate a law before deploying the technology.
One thing I don't understand (Score:3)
What was wrong with the old Delhi?
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What was wrong with the old Delhi?
The corned beef was too greasy, and they were closed on Saturday's.
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She'd put on weight and was getting wrinkly.
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Finally! (Score:2)
We have the technology to suppress dissidents. Our Great Leaders can create the harmonious society they've promised us, and we can all live satisfactory lives as cogs in a greater machine.
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Oh, we need to take it to the next level, London style. With cameras on every corner, and a government discussion stopping all government benefits for any rioter. Surely that's the way to utopia! Right now in the US, only a small percentage of those young enough to riot need that government check each month to live, so the power is limited, but if we can just force everyone onto government health care, then no one will dare riot. Utopia awaits.
Fuck India (Score:2, Funny)
Interesting (Score:2, Interesting)
So, the Infian government will use this technology to identify people protesting the new citizenship law, but wont use it for things like several months ago when that university in New Delhi was mobbed by attackers?
if it's worth it (Score:4, Insightful)
If a cause is so important to make it worth rioting over then it seems to me that the protesters would be proud to have their names assiciated with their actions. So long as this is being used to identify all people protesting on the public streets and it is reliable I have no specific problem with it.
I would be more concerned if it were being used to track people day to day that are not part of any protest, or if it were applied lopsidely only to protests by a particular faction.
You're underestimating the importance (Score:3, Insightful)
Think post
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Most of the early actions were done anonymously
Others were done under pen names, like Ben Franklin who used the name Benevolous for lobbying in England and France.
If the real identities of Paine and Franklin were exposed, the American Revolution would have failed.
Citations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
https://www.pbs.org/benfrankli... [pbs.org]
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu... [iwu.edu]
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I would be more concerned if it were being used to track people day to day that are not part of any protest, or if it were applied lopsidely only to protests by a particular faction.
Reports have it that the violence was largely by Hindu supremacists targeting largely peaceful Moslem protesters, whilst the police stood back and let it happen. So, we will indeed see how evenly the law is applied.
A country with majority bigots (Score:1)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/school-burnt-in-delhi-riots-sealed-owner-arrested/story-t7avOXzwU5iWSwaTmGELuI.html [hindustantimes.com]
For covering the riots, BBC is termed as "one sided" by the Hindu nationalist
https://theprint.in/ind [theprint.in]
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So does the US (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, you thought you weren't being surveilled illegally and unconstitutionally?
Silly rabbit.
The King demands your fealty.
Software (Score:2)
"This is a software. It does not see faith."
Unless we cross-index onto the correct database table.