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Emulating China: India seeks to adopt facial recognition system for police

The government says the move is designed to help one of the world's most understaffed police forces, which has one officer for every 724 citizens

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Archana Chaudhary | Bloomberg
India is planning to set up one of the world’s largest facial recognition systems, potentially a lucrative opportunity for surveillance companies and a nightmare for privacy advocates who fear it will lead to a Chinese-style Orwellian state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will open bids next month to build a system to centralize facial recognition data captured through surveillance cameras across India. It would link up with databases containing records for everything from passports to fingerprints to help India’s depleted police force identify criminals, missing persons and dead bodies.

The government says the move is designed to help one of

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