Congress leader Pawan Khera has questioned Delhi Police after a report found that at least 25 people allegedly flagged by its facial recognition system as present at a Jantar Mantar protest were actually in jail at the time.
\n\nCongress leader Pawan Khera has raised questions about the reliability of Delhi Police's facial recognition system after a report found that at least 25 people flagged by the technology at Jantar Mantar were actually in jail at the time.
\n\nIn a post on X, Khera called the development “extraordinary and deeply disturbing”, saying that it raised questions either about the technology being used by the Delhi Police or the process through which people were identified at the protest site.
\n\n"This is extraordinary and deeply disturbing. Delhi Police’s facial-recognition system identified at least 25 people accused of murder, rape and attempted murder as being present at the Jantar Mantar protests – even though they were actually sitting in jail," Khera wrote.
\n\n"That leaves only two possibilities, and both are deeply alarming: 1. The technology is dangerously unreliable. The very system Delhi Police is using to identify and potentially target protesters in Delhi and across the country is so flawed that it is identifying…
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