India has 170 facial recognition systems, but only a handful are operational

The use of biometric facial recognition for large-scale surveillance and crime prevention has become widespread. According to the Panoptic Tracker by the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), there are 170 facial recognition systems in India, but only a few of them are operational.

Among the 170 systems, only 20 facial recognition systems are operational in locations such as Telangana, Delhi, and Maharashtra. The majority of the systems, more than 85 percent, are in various stages of tender bidding, implementation, procurement, and …

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