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Use of facial recognition to combat sex crimes in India sparks concerns
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Women commuting in a suburban train in Mumbai on Monday, amid the pandemic. Sexual crimes against women are a major issue in India, which recorded 405,861 such cases in 2019, up by 7.3 per cent over 2018, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
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Nirmala Ganapathy India Bureau Chief In New Delhi, Nirmala Ganapathy
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Police in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh will use facial recognition to track sex offenders in the latest use of a technology that many argue throws up issues of privacy.
The northern state has been seeking to curb crimes against women with a series of actions - some controversial - even as it has seen some of the worst ones, including last year's horrific gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman.
