Hyderabad Police justify facial recognition surveillance, top cop denies using it

Telangana By Sumit Jha January 3, 2023 Read the article

During a partial lockdown in Hyderabad due to Covid-19, SQ Masood was stopped by two police personnel around Shahran Market.

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They asked the city-based social activist to remove his face mask and clicked his photograph on a tablet PC.

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The Hyderabad City Commissioner of Police CV Anand told the Telangana High Court that facial recognition systems (FRS) were entirely legal.

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FRS compares the face of a person moving under suspicious circumstances — or suspected of committing an offence — with a database.

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The data is stored in the central database of the CCTNS — the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & System — maintained by the Central government.

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“In no way is the FRS deployed covertly and non-consensually, as alleged by the petitioner [Masood],” the police said.

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However, Anand said during the Annual Press Meet of the Hyderabad Commissionerate that the police do not use FRS “as it amounts to human rights violation”.

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Srinivas Kodali, a researcher with the Free Software Movement of India, said that the police can’t randomly stop people and demand to know their identity.

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“From Operation Chabootra to Ivanka Trump’s visit to Hyderabad, to drug searches, the police have routinely collected data and illegally searched people,” he said.

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“During protests, the police will take everyone’s photo. They will not arrest everyone that day, but do so after three to six months.”

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“The error rate will be high,” says Sidharth Sreekumar Senior Product Manager at the Economist Intelligence Unit, as the algorithms are not meant for Indian skin tones.

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