{"id":69190,"date":"2020-01-03T20:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T01:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69190"},"modified":"2020-01-03T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T02:01:53","slug":"reflections-on-indian-police-are-using-facial-recognition-to-identify-protesters-in-delhi-toussaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/01\/03\/reflections-on-indian-police-are-using-facial-recognition-to-identify-protesters-in-delhi-toussaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Indian police are using facial recognition to identify protesters in Delhi&#8221; [Toussaint]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90448241\/indian-police-are-using-facial-recognition-to-identify-protestors-in-delhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Indian police are using facial recognition to identify protesters in Delhi<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from fastcompany.com by\u00a0Kristin Toussaint<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">At Modi\u2019s rally on December 22, Delhi police used Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) software\u2014which officials there acquired in 2018 as a tool to find and identify missing children\u2014to screen the crowd for faces that match a database of people who have attended other protests around the city, and who officials said could be disruptive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to the<em>\u00a0Indian Express<\/em>, Delhi police have long filmed these protest events, and the department announced Monday that officials fed that footage through AFRS. Sources told the Indian news outlet that once \u201cidentifiable faces\u201d are extracted from that footage, a dataset will point out and retain \u201chabitual protesters\u201d and \u201crowdy elements.\u201d That dataset was put to use at Modi\u2019s rally to keep away \u201cmiscreants who could raise slogans or banners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Here in the United States&#8230;are we paying attention to today&#8217;s emerging technologies and collaboratively working to create a future <em>dream<\/em> \u2014 versus a future <em>nightmare<\/em>!?!\u00a0 A vendor or organization might propose a beneficial reason to use their product or technology &#8212; and it might even meet the hype at times&#8230;but then comes along other unintended uses and consequences of that technology. For example, in the article above, what started out as a technology that was supposed to be used to find\/identify missing children (a benefit) was later used to identify protesters (an unintended consequence, and a nightmare in terms of such an expanded scope of use I might add)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Along these lines, the youth of today have every right to voice their opinions and to have a role in developing or torpedoing emerging techs. What we build and put into place now will impact their lives bigtime!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police are using facial recognition to identify protesters in Delhi &#8212; from fastcompany.com by\u00a0Kristin Toussaint Excerpt: At Modi\u2019s rally on December 22, Delhi police used Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) software\u2014which officials there acquired in 2018 as a tool to find and identify missing children\u2014to screen the crowd for faces that match a database [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,210,403,37,35,458,825,285,353,480,454,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-emerging-technologies","category-ethics","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-india","category-law-schools","category-legislation-legislatures","category-moralsvalues","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69195,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69190\/revisions\/69195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}