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#SurveillanceWatch

"Hyderabad was recently named as the city with the most number of CCTV cameras in India, and the 16th most surveilled city in the world"

(Updated: 10 Nov 2020)

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/the-hyderabad-model-of-cctv-surveillance-11604926158442.html

The Hyderabad model of CCTV surveillance

Telangana is leading the way in using tech to track citizens. Other Indian cities are looking to emulate the model.Several cities are already in the process of setting up integrated command-and-control centres. The new hardware, combined with AI and facial recognition, could easily be misused

Jun 13, 2021 at 7:53pmWeb
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“A state government using this network of tools—CCTV, facial recognition, AI & a 360 degree database—to monitor its citizens is the death of democracy" says Srinivas Kodali, a digital rights activist and one of the most outspoken voices in Hyderabad against its policing practices
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WHERE ARE THE SAFEGUARDS?

Its easy to sell pervasive surveillance under the guise of security, and few people think beyond this.

However, the implicit assumption is that the entities controlling the system are benign, fair and accountable. NONE of which is ever the reality.