Delhi Police facial recognition system

entry · p2026-09-06-221 · validated

2,873 such persons were identified between July 20 and July 26 through the system

tech: delhi-police-frt
passes the definition as: a face-recognition network matching faces from protest and CCTV footage against police photo records, with an 80% match treated as positive
from: 2026-07-20
region: IN
domain: agency
side: loss
people: 2,873 people identified by face matching at a protest site (2026-07-26)
effect: — people identified (2026-07-26) — identified from cameras at a protest and matched against existing police records, with no warrant or notice; Delhi Police treats an 80% match as a positive identification
reversible: no
who holds the switch: owner:Delhi Police
attribution: named
source kind: secondary
the statistic: Delhi Police told the Supreme Court that 2,873 persons were identified between 20 and 26 July 2026 through the facial recognition system at the Jantar Mantar protest site, matched against records already held by police. Separately, an Internet Freedom Foundation RTI established that Delhi Police treats an 80% match as a positive result.
source: https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/facial-recognition-tech-used-at-cjp-protests-only-to-find-those-with-criminal-record-delhi-police-to-supreme-court
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, china-india-africa-latam
received: 2026-09-06T10:20:12-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-china-india-africa-latam.md

Rulings, in order

2026-09-06T10:21:26-04:00 · validatorpass — quote found on the fetched page (exact match; HTTP 200 text/html; charset=utf-8)
2026-09-06T10:21:26-04:00 · sessionseverity — identified by face matching at a protest with no notice; no measured consequence beyond identification, so ordinary until one is

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