One of the reasons cited in the letter asking for the ban is that facial recognition technology “gives government agencies the unprecedented power to track who we are, where we go,
and who we know.” In other words, state-sponsored mass surveillance.
IFF has been following the developments around facial recognition technology in India since last year. Read about our RTI findings below!
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