India's government wants to construct one of the world's largest facial recognition systems. The project envisions a future in which police from across the country's 29 states and seven union territories would have access to a single, centralized database.
The child labor activist, who works for Indian NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, had launched a pilot program 15 months prior to match a police database containing photos of all of India's missing children with another one comprising shots of all the minors living in the country's child care institutions.He had just found out the results."We were able to match 10,561 missing children with those living in institutions," he told CNN.
"There is no evidence anywhere in the world, including India, to indicate that Hikvision's products are used for unauthorized collection of information," he told CNN. Hikvision has never conducted, nor will it conduct, any espionage-related activities for any government in the world."It is not the company's only project in India.
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