Use of Facial Recognition by Delhi Police

Use of Facial Recognition by Delhi Police
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Deployment Status	Ongoing
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Events	* uses Record type Property:Has event Start (1 March 2018, Documented, , the Delhi Police had acquired Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) software in March 2018 [[CiteRef::mazoomdarDelhiPoliceFilm2019) ]]
City	New Delhi
Country	India
Involved Entities	Innefu Labs Pvt. Ltd
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Technology Deployed	Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS)
Information Certainty	Documented
Primary sources	1
Datasets Used	Aadhaar Database, Unidentified Dead Bodies Database (UIDB), Identification of missing children/persons, Sarathi Database (Driving License), Voter ID Database
Deployment Type	Biometric Cameras, Criminal investigations, Crowd management, Surveillance, Facial recognition
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managed by	Delhi Police
used by	Delhi Police
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Information Certainty: Documented

Deployment Purpose: Surveillance, Crime Prevention, Political Surveillance, Missing Person Recovery

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Products and Institutions:

Product Deployed	Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS)
Institutions ⠉	National Crime Records Bureau (India)
Datasets	Aadhaar Database Unidentified Dead Bodies Database (UIDB) Sarathi Database (Driving License) Voter ID Database Identification of missing children/persons (Track Child Portal)
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Status and Events:

Status	Ongoing
Events	Start (1 March 2018, Documented, , No description)
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Involved Entities	Innefu Labs Pvt. Ltd
Managed by	Delhi Police
Used by	Delhi Police

Location:

City	New Delhi
Country ⠉	India

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Description

Following a Delhi High Court order in a case related to missing children, the Delhi Police had acquired Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) software in March 2018 as a tool to identify lost and found boys and girls by matching photos. 1

Sources said Delhi Police has so far created a photo dataset of over 1.5 lakh “history-sheeters” for routine crime investigation. Another dataset meant for monitoring sensitive public events has over 2000 images of terror suspects and — the latest addition — alleged “rabble-rousers and miscreants”. 1

For long, Delhi Police has been filming major protest events in the city. This footage is now being fed to AFRS which extracts “identifiable faces” of the protesters to its dataset. Once extracted, say sources, the lot is manually screened to identify and retain “habitual protesters” and “rowdy elements”. This dataset of “select protesters”, said sources, was put to use for the first time to keep “miscreants who could raise slogans or banners” out of the Prime Minister’s rally last Sunday. 1

Linked Database: Identification of missing children/persons, Unidentified Dead Bodies Database (UIDB), Aadhaar Database, Sarathi Database (Driving License), Voter ID Database 2