Hyderabad schools adopt facial recognition for morning attendance

Schools in Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana, are using facial recognition to take morning attendance. Telangana is also using facial recognition to pay pensions, renew driving licences, evoting, and deter crime. Adoption was partly fueled by fear of spreading covid-19 through fingerprints. There are now 370,000 cameras in Hyderabad, controlled from a new command-and-control centre, and about 925,000 across Telangana. 
 

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Publication: The Print
Writer: Vandana Menon