Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
In my state Kerala in India, police seems to have started using face recognition. There was a huge protest recently in a famous temple called Sabarimala. Police had installed 12 cameras in the temple compound. If I understood  correctly, the system compares live video feed against a database and alerts the police if anyone in the database was caught in the camera.<p>Quoted from the below link:<p>&gt;&quot;The cameras are equipped with artificial intelligence (AI). They can recognise people, who are among a crowd, by identifying faces. To ensure safety, the photographs of wanted people will be uploaded on the system. Whenever a person who is in the wanted list appears before the camera it will detect the person and send popup notifications to the three control rooms at Sabarimala,&quot; said IG Manoj Abraham, Cyberdome nodal officer.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newindianexpress.com&#x2F;states&#x2F;kerala&#x2F;2018&#x2F;oct&#x2F;14&#x2F;now-facial-detection-cameras-to-catch-crooks-in-sabarimala-1885170.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newindianexpress.com&#x2F;states&#x2F;kerala&#x2F;2018&#x2F;oct&#x2F;14&#x2F;no...</a><p>While I dont know the specifics, police used this system to arrest 200 known protestors by preparing a database of 1500 people and had the system go through over 800 hours of footage.<p>If that is not enough, now they are planning to use drones with facial recognition as well.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newindianexpress.com&#x2F;specials&#x2F;2018&#x2F;sep&#x2F;17&#x2F;kerala-police-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-systems-on-drones-1872892.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newindianexpress.com&#x2F;specials&#x2F;2018&#x2F;sep&#x2F;17&#x2F;kerala-...</a><p>I thought the plans to use face recognition in airports was scary, but they are taking it to an entirely different level altogether.