{"id":1880,"date":"2022-09-13T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/13\/smart-cities-in-the-global-south-facial-recognition-in-delhi\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T11:39:07","slug":"smart-cities-in-the-global-south-facial-recognition-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/13\/smart-cities-in-the-global-south-facial-recognition-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart cities in the global south: facial recognition in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wired has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/delhi-police-facial-recognition\/\">an article<\/a> on the pervasive use of facial recognition software in New Delhi, and it\u2019s astonishingly low accuracy rate of 80%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1567.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1567.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1567-380x700.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1567-81x150.jpg 81w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1567-768x1415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This could lead to new types of exclusionary practices in today\u2019s \u201csmart cities\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Anushka Jain, associate policy counsel for surveillance and technology with the IFF, who filed for this information, observes: <br \/><br \/>\u201cThis could lead to harassment of the individual just because the technology is saying that they look similar to the person the police are looking for.\u201d She added that this move by the Delhi Police could also result in harassment of people from communities that have been historically targeted by law enforcement officials.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/delhi-police-facial-recognition\/\">full article on Wired &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired has an article on the pervasive use of facial recognition software in New Delhi, and it\u2019s astonishingly low accuracy rate of 80%. This could [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/13\/smart-cities-in-the-global-south-facial-recognition-in-delhi\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[254,288,78],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-exclusion","tag-facial-recognition","tag-surveillance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/img_1567.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-uk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}