NEW DELHI – As India prepares to install a nationwide facial recognition system in an effort to catch criminals and find missing children, human rights and technology experts warn of the risks to privacy from increased surveillance.
Use of the camera technology is an effort in “modernizing the police force, information gathering, criminal identification, verification,” according to India’s national crime bureau.
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