India citizenship law protest surveillance

Reuters reports that police in New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh have been using facial recognition technologies to identify and detain protestors marching against India's controversial new citizenship law. The law is said to marginalise Muslims.

Indian activists are concerned about the privacy implications of facial recognition, and its potential use for suveillance and other purposes. 

Rajan Bhagat, a deputy commissioner of police at Delhi’s Crime Records Office claimed he is 'only catching targeted people' and that his force 'doesn’t have any protesters’ data, nor do we plan to store it.'

Uttar Pradesh police have also been criticised for using drones to surveil citizenship law protests.