India using face biometrics to fight fraud in voting and mobile registration

Indian officials across India are increasingly using facial recognition to identify fraud in elections and SIM card registrations.

The State Election Commission (SEC), for example, deployed self-named face biometrics software by Chennai startup FaceTagr for Panchayat (village council) by-elections May 25, according to the Times of India.

According to the Times, FaceTagr's systems helped government workers prevent about 10,000 incidents of voter fraud.

Seemingly satisfied with those results, commissioners used the face-matching system during the June 9 urban …

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