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    • Lost at 10 in Islamabad, found at 27: How AI technology traced a missing girl’s family after 17 years

      Kiran, who uses only one name, was just 10 years old when she got lost in Islamabad in 2008. She had stepped out to buy ice cream but could not find her way back home and did not remember her address.

    • Hyderabad's municipal body to introduce facial recognition attendance system for 25,000 workers

      The city municipal body intends to register attendances of its 25,000 staff working in the sanitation, entomology, veterinary, and other departments of the corporation

    • University to remove vending machines after student claimed they used facial recognition

      The smart vending machines, manufactured by Invenda Group, were owned by Mars, the parent company of M&M's.

    • India disconnects 6.4 million 'fraudulent' phone connections with the help of facial recognition

      The C-DoT-developed 'Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition powered Solution for Telecom SIM Subscriber Verification' tries to find photos with similar facial vectors to zero in on fraudulent connections

    • Central Railway to install CCTV cameras with face recognition system in Mumbai, at other stations

      These cameras can recognize a person whose face is stored in the database, instantly alerting the administration to the presence of known criminals as they enter a station, the release said, adding that they can identify various parts of a face, such as a retina or forehead.

    • Telangana govt to detect bus driver fatigue through facial recognition tech; workers’ union wary

      The move has irked the Telangana State Road TRansport Corporation (TSRTC) Worker Union, who has termed this a 'scare tactic' by the government

    • The startup behind DigiYatra reveals how it perfected the tool’s facial recognition algorithm

      Avinash Komireddy, Founder and CEO of Dataevolve, the start-up that designed the DigiYatra ecosystem, claims the facial recognition algorithm has a success rate of 99%

    • This Hyderabad-based startup is behind the airport walk-in app DigiYatra

      Kolkata, Pune, Vijayawada and Hyderabad airports, too, will get DigiYatra by March 2023, civil aviation ministry has told Parliament

    • Violation of Right to Privacy: Karti Chidambaram on 'Orwellian' usage of facial recognition by Chennai police

      This comes a few days after the Greater Chennai Police admitted to using the technology in response to a tweet by a Chennai resident.

    • Govt rolls out facial recognition system DigiYatra at Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi airports

      To use this facility, one-time registration on the DigiYatra app is required using Aadhar-based validation and a self-image capture.

    • Govt promotes facial authentication to verify pensioners in month-long campaign

      For the past month, the Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare (under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions) has been running a campaign to increase the use of facial authentication, involving banks, ministries, and pensioners' associations.

    • Govt must clearly define data usage norms for facial recognition tech Digi Yatra: NITI Aayog

      NITI Aayog has also urged the government to adopt a facial recognition model that is free of bias, which might result in incorrect decisions and, ultimately, exclusion from access.

    • How facial recognition at Bihar ULB polls will work

      Over 15,000 tablets embedded with an Android app will be used to combat the problem of bogus voting, which the state government has flagged as a major issue. On detection of a bogus voter, necessary action will be taken

    • Telangana Public Service Commission candidates to be verified through facial recognition

      About 43,400 biometric devices and 1,07,600 CCTV cameras to be installed in thousands of examination centres across the southern state

    • Six lakh duplicate Aadhaars cancelled as 'face' added for biometric verification: MeitY

      Minister of State in Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said 11 'illegal' websites have been stopped from providing Aadhaar-related services

    • Exclusive: Over 100,000 pensioners verified via Aadhaar-based facial recognition, says RTI reply

      Despite the government claiming that Aadhaar is infallible, its critics have cited a myriad Aadhaar-related payment frauds, identity theft cases and so on.

    • We are unbiased in use of data and nobody is surveilled without consent: KTR on facial recognition in Hyderabad

      There have been widespread concerns regarding the usage of facial recognition in Hyderabad in governance and for surveillance.

    • Telangana remains most surveilled State; Tamil Nadu sees three-fold increase in CCTVs

      With half of the country’s CCTV cameras, Telangana is the most surveilled state in India. The proliferation of CCTVs comes in the absence of laws to regulate their usage and amid privacy concerns

    • What you need to know about facial recognition at airports

      “We’ve automated a manual process,” said Diane Sabatino, deputy executive assistant commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP), who is overseeing the biometric program.

    • Facial recognition in schools: here are the risks to children

      Nine schools in the area recently launched this practice as a means to take payment for lunches more quickly and minimise COVID risk, though they’ve since paused rolling out the technology.

    • Aadhaar-based facial authentication to be used for India's vaccination drive, not facial recognition: Infosys Chairman Nandan Nilekani

      What will be used is facial authentication where they compare your photograph with your Aadhaar number. It is no different than fingerprint authentication, iris or OTP authentication. Now we have to aim for 5-10 million vaccines a day and hence the transaction time is very important.

    • IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says facial recognition algorithms must be unbiased, transparent: Report

      Prasad also discussed keeping users in the loop. He said that while a user’s data is being kept into account, they must be informed of the purpose for which it is being used.

    • Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology for a year

      The announcement came two days after International Business Machines (IBM) Corp said it will no longer offer general-purpose facial recognition or analysis software.

    • Will IBM’s exit from facial recognition shape the narrative around this technology?

      IBM’s stand on facial recognition and Jack Dorsey’s defense for adding fact-checking label to the US President’s tweet, fall into the larger narrative of tech majors' take on role of technology.

    • What is facial recognition and will it work when people are wearing a mask?

      Here is a basic guide about facial recognition and how it works to identify a person among the crowd.

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