“The cameras cover every inch of Telangana,” the local government recently bragged.
installed, most of them concentrated in Hyderabad. According to the Bureau of Police Research and Development under the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs, in January 2020, 61 percent of all police CCTV cameras in India were in Telangana. A study by New Delhi–based digital liberties organization Internet Freedom Foundation found that Telangana has the highest number of facial recognition technology projects of any Indian state.
and photos of the citizens. Activists say this exercise usually takes place in areas where Muslims and other socioeconomically marginalized communities live., in which the police detain people who roam around the streets late at night, collect and store their data, and match that against the existing criminal records. The operation draws its name from the Urdu word, meaning a raised stone platform, which is usually built in front of houses in Hyderabad.
. The CCTNS, a project by the Indian Home Ministry, is a nationwide database that contains millions of images of criminals and missing people.by Amnesty India, the Telangana police’s facial recognition technology scans distinct features of a person’s face to create a biometric map. An algorithm then searches for potential matches using images of people’s faces scraped from social media profiles and other databases.
Anushka Jain, associate counsel for surveillance and transparency for the Internet Freedom Foundation, said that taking photos and fingerprint scans of citizens casts suspicion of criminality on the entire population. “Because by that logic the police can argue that anybody can commit a crime and everybody should have their record on the criminal database. It goes against any established principles and constitutional rights,” Jain said.
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