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So at first let us know what is a facial recognition technology. Of course everyone of us has smart phones in our hands and an front camera which says us about automatic facial recognition at the times of clicking pictures or unlocking our phone with facelock, showing different age number, some shows emotional status in our screen and so on.
So, basically Facial recognition technology is a technology, made as a biometry system like fingerprint recognition or Iris recognition, which is able to match a human face from a digital image or a video frame against database of faces. Though after some experiments, this technology is banned for biometry system, as it fails to identify criminals.
However in the 1970s, the psychological emotion recognition has focused on facial recognition and speech. In 2016, this facial feature emotion recognition algorithm entered in new technologies like CCTV, smartphone etc.
In ‘smart city initiative’ government proposed to cover 100 of Indian cities and improve the quality of life in them and specially in women through this technology. For women, this technology was expected to prevent future assault, rape as preventive measures can be taken in time.
Lucknow police also suggested to use AI cameras , equipped with facial recognition technology as that would generate alarm for a distressed behavior of a woman.
But living in a country,let us see, where only a few female police officers holding their positions, how much worthwhile the results become.
According to 2019 annual report of NCNCRB, women exploitation has increased even from 2018,having a uprising curve of assualting.
It’s to be questioned that outward assualting isn’t only a thing, women are tormented in between their house, whether it’s fear from some bad touch to domestic violence. How those technologies are going to deal with that.
And after all of these, in these patriarchal society how much can we believe male police officers? How can we be sure that women are not just getting monitored?
Isn’t it just another tormented thinking of government to keep women under control by analyzing their movement, mind and expression? Isn’t it another activity to herm women’s freedom in name of safety? After all constant surveillance of women make interest to patriarchy. Just the way, women are always getting monitored every where they go.
Furthermore a 100% accurate Facial Recognition technology hasn’t been improved till now. How can we be sure about the recognition of expression. as a result it’ll only lead to harassment of both women and police.
Maybe the ideas are good, but India lacks the infrastructure. We’ll need more female police officers for safety check of women, more police officers on road to take measures in no time. And maybe a better technology to employ. And taking of more steps to stop the criminal rather than monitoring victim.