With the tender submission date to procure, the National Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) just 20 days away. India is closer to install world’s largest face recognition system to track and nab criminals. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), under Home Ministry, asked for the bids on July 8. It will be closed on November 8. The winner to provide AFRS will be announced on November 8.
“This is an effort in the direction of modernizing the police force, information gathering, criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organizations and units across the country,” said NCRB in its 172-page document. The beneficiaries will be Ministry of Home Affairs, NCRB and state police forces.
The tech industry needs to step up and do more to address challenges related to regulation, said Smith in his new book titled “Tools and Weapons”. Given the potential for abuse of the fast advancing facial recognition technology, governments across the world need to start adopting laws to regulate this technology in 2019, Smith said last year.
“Unless we act, we risk waking up five years from now to find that facial recognition services have spread in ways that exacerbate societal issues,” warned Smith in a blog post. “The use of facial recognition technology by a government for mass surveillance can encroach on democratic freedoms,” he said in December last year.
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