Facial recognition van deployed in Delhi market
Indian authorities deployed a facial recognition van in a Delhi market, using mobile surveillance technology to scan faces in a public commercial area.
Why this matters: A van that scans every face in a busy market is not targeted policing. It is a dragnet. Every shopper, vendor, and bystander gets checked against a database without knowing it and without doing anything wrong. India has no comprehensive data protection law covering this kind of biometric collection. There is no clear public record of who operates these vans, what database they match against, how long data is kept, or what happens when the system gets someone wrong. That is a lot of power with very little accountability.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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