Indian Railways coaches to get 175K facial recognition cameras

India has monumental biometric surveillance plans for its equally monumental railway system.

The government has posted a tender to make Indian Railways one of the, if not the most surveilled property on Earth. National and state leaders have gone at this in a piecemeal fashion to date.

When officials finish studding railcars with facial recognition systems, there will be cities that rival their coverage, but they all will be blanket networks. Indian Railways’ will be myriad cables and belts intently …

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