Delhi Police is using facial recognition. Where is the law governing it?
Delhi Police is actively using facial recognition technology, yet India has no specific law regulating how law enforcement can deploy it. The gap between operational use and legal oversight has drawn public attention.
Why this matters: Police are scanning faces in one of the world's most populous cities with no clear rules on who they can target, how long the data is kept, or what happens when the system misidentifies someone. That is not a technical gap. It is a power gap. Facial recognition used without legal guardrails is just surveillance with good marketing. People in Delhi have no legal right to know if they are in a database, no formal way to challenge a match, and no law that limits how far this goes next.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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