Indian district rolls out live facial recognition to fight crime wave

A district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is rolling out a crime-fighting search engine powered by live facial recognition called the Geospatial Data Intelligence Platform (GDIP).

The police in Gautam Buddha Nagar district, which is part of the Delhi National Capital Region, are hoping that the new technology will help stem the city’s crime wave: Kidnapping has gone up by more than 70 percent in the last two years, according to police data.

The Geospatial Data Intelligence Platform …

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