India considers nationwide facial recognition network for airports
India is weighing the deployment of a nationwide facial recognition system across its airports, according to reporting by Biometric Update. The proposal would connect biometric identification infrastructure at airport checkpoints throughout the country.
Why this matters: Airports are already one of the most surveilled places most people ever pass through. Adding facial recognition at national scale means the government builds a record of when and where you travel every time you fly. That data does not stay in one place forever, and India has no comprehensive data protection framework yet to govern how it gets stored, shared, or used. The convenience pitch is real. So is the infrastructure for tracking hundreds of millions of people by their faces.
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