Facial Recognition: Let's face it, it's a big market & a big danger

A good privacy bill could spawn another lucrative market.

Synopsis

The technology has opened up a massive surveillance market in India which still lacks a legal framework.

About four years ago, Rijurekha Sen, then a computer science researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, collaborated with her colleague Paarijaat Aaditya and the institute’s director Peter Druschel to develop I-Pic, a platform for privacy-compliant image capture (largely via mobile phones though not limited to).When an I-Pic embedded phone snaps a picture, it would silently communicate via bluetooth with other devices in the
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