While facial recognition technology isn’t new, facial recognition payment technology is—and it’s growing very quickly. About 495 million Chinese shoppers used it in 2021.
Move comes almost a year after Centre made digital capturing of attendance under MGNREGS universal. Aim is to weed out ghost beneficiaries and reduce financial irregularities.
Preliminary work to set up Measurement Collection Units as part of Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, done. Police officers say it would be a big push to crime-solving.
Venture capital funded FRT companies can discount the price of facial recognition technology and push its use in law enforcement contexts without any public input or scrutiny.
In an interview, National Health Authority chief R.S. Sharma says UIDAI's facial recognition algorithms will soon be rolled out at vaccination centres.
NCRB's planned Automated Facial Recognition System is aimed at automatic identification and verification. It will be implemented at the national level.
Speaking at the CPR Dialogues 2020, Congress MP says Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ‘positive potential’ but ‘far greater propensity’ to interfere with human rights.
Assam CM can’t celebrate that the Congress drew a blank in the Bodoland Territorial Council polls in 2010 as well as 2015, and bagged only one in 2020.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
In post on social media, Cooper narrated experience of MiG-21 researcher from Germany who wanted to attend aircraft’s farewell ceremony in India, and the roadblocks he faced.
What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.
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