National repository of photographs mooted
The Central government wants to create a
“repository of photographs of criminals in the country,” and wants to put a
system in place to track “missing children and unidentified dead bodies,”
through facial recognition.
Bids invited
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has
invited bids for Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) that would even
“capture face images from CCTV feed and generate alerts if a blacklist match is
found”. To begin with, a repository of 1.5 crore ‘criminals’ is being planned.
The data protection law is yet to be passed by Parliament but the bid document
referred to this aspect.
A senior Home Ministry official said the
primary objective was to track missing children and identify unclaimed bodies
through the photo records. “It will not violate privacy laws,” said the
official.
“The repository shall act as a foundation for
a national level searchable platform of facial images and the data needs to be
protected against following threats — unauthorised access to database or
application, accidental modifications or deletions, confidentiality, integrity
and availability breaches of data during data transport and physical storage,
encryption/decryption engine,” the document uploaded by the NCRB on its website
said. The bids are to be submitted by September.
“The AFRS must allow the implementation of an
access control policy based on the use of logins, passwords and/or fingerprint
login, multi-layered security should be in place in order to access various
features at the central server,” the document said.
The system would also enable handheld mobile
with “applications to capture a face on the field and get the matching result
from the backend server”.
The document said, “Facial recognition system
shall be enabled at cameras identified by the authority. These cameras
identified shall be installed at critical locations finalised by the
authority.”
Source
| The Hinud | 9th July 2019
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