A first in Punjab, Khanna police successfully use facial recognition tech to spot suspects
Police in Khanna, Punjab, India have reportedly used facial recognition technology to identify suspects, marking what local sources describe as a first for the state's law enforcement.
Why this matters: Facial recognition in policing sounds efficient until you look at who gets caught in it. The technology has a documented record of misidentifying people, and the errors fall hardest on people with darker skin tones. When a police department rolls this out for the first time, the real test is not whether it worked once. It is whether there are rules for when it can be used, who reviews the matches, and what happens to the faces of people who were never suspects at all.
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