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Thursday, November 13, 2025
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Topic: surveillance

Modi govt seeks to adopt China-style facial recognition in policing

Modi govt will open bids next month to build a system to centralise facial recognition data captured through surveillance cameras across India.

Aadhaar to e-commerce: Data needs to ensure ease of living, not be a burden on Indians

The government’s administrative architecture must be designed in such a way that the burden on Indians to provide data to multiple agencies is reduced.

Those who attacked Aadhaar should object to AAP’s CCTV project: Pratap Bhanu Mehta

It is a nightmare that we’re going to put cameras in classrooms, says political commentator Pratap Bhanu Mehta.

Delhi Police asked to pursue Arun Jaitley phone surveillance case with ‘all sincerity’

A notice of breach of privilege was given by some Rajya Sabha members on the alleged surveillance of Arun Jaitley's mobile phones in 2013.

‘CCTV project a voyeur’s dream, will lead to surveillance state’: Delhi govt gets legal notice

The Internet Freedom Foundation, a privacy advocacy group, has warned the Arvind Kejriwal govt of legal action if it does not stop its CCTV project.

Can our water, power woes hit data localisation plans? New BJP or Congress govt must answer

Locating data on Indian soil may not necessarily give the government jurisdiction over it.

China’s mass surveillance is more sophisticated than thought, courtesy several tech giants

Human Rights Watch report sheds new light on the vast scope of activity China is monitoring as it cracks down on its minority Muslim Uighur population.

Madras HC judge pulls up court registrar for not installing CCTV cameras in his chamber

Justice S.M. Subramaniam says ‘it’s a painful situation’ that even after 4 weeks no work was done, assures he is willing to pay if there’s an issue of funds.

MHA snoop order & bid to amend IT rules: China-like clampdown or tracking unlawful content?

An MHA order last week authorised 10 government agencies to scan data on computers. This was followed by the Modi government's proposal to amend...

Both BJP and Congress are complicit in expanding state surveillance without legal basis

An MHA order authorises 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt information.

On Camera

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.