The police know that the media and public are usually on their side, so they don’t worry too much about being brutal. But there is one rule for the poor and another for the middle class.
CJP has said ‘mass-scanning citizens exercising their legal right to protest is unconstitutional’. Delhi Police says they are using tech to ensure criminals don't infiltrate the protest site.
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.
The police know that the media and public are usually on their side, so they don’t worry too much about being brutal. But there is one rule for the poor and another for the middle class.
Government tells Parliament toll collections touched Rs 70,278 crore in 2025-26, Rajasthan has highest number of toll plazas, while expenditure on operating plazas is not maintained centrally.
Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.
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