Activists Decry Police Use of Facial Recognition Cameras To Protect Women
Activists Decry Police Use of Facial Recognition Cameras To Protect Women
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LUCKNOW, India – Privacy issues have been raised since one Indian city rolled out plans for police to install cameras that use artificial intelligence to “read” expressions of women in distress and alert a nearby police station.
As facial recognition technology gains a foothold in the country, activists are questioning the police’s surveillance plans in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh state.
“Equipped with artificial intelligence, the cameras will perform multiple actions simultaneously capturing data, analyzing it and sending alerts when required,” said Lucknow police commissioner D.K. Thakur.
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Updated Feb 03, 2021 | 18:35 IST
The event provides BEL, BEML and India s other PSUs with a prime opportunity to exhibit their latest defence technologies and systems under the banner of Prime Minister Narendra Modi s Aatmanirbhar Bharat. Visitors swarm around various aircrafts on static display during rehearsals for the Aero India 2021, at the Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, Tuesday, Feb.2, 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI
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Roughly 30 BEL products and systems under India s self-reliance drive will be showcased including airborne missile electronics, receivers for EW systems, 2KW fuel cell, FO Gyro based sensor packaged unit, Athermal laser transmitter, IR jammer, call manager and media gateway, C-band tropo power amplifier and IR seeker missiles
Qapita secures investment from East Ventures
New Delhi, Feb 3 (UNI) Qapita, a Singapore-based provider of digital equity management SaaS solutions, on Wednesday announced that it has secured an undisclosed strategic investment from East Ventures.
Qapita helps private companies and start-ups manage capitalisation tables (cap tables) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs).
Qapita also aims to digitise issuance of equity awards and shares. The fresh round of funding will be used to further strengthen the team in Singapore, India and Indonesia, accelerate product development and build clientele.
Qapita was founded in 2019 by CEO Ravi Ravulaparthi, COO Lakshman Gupta, and CTO Vamsee Mohan, who recognised the inefficiencies in private market ownership and transactions, coupled with the need to digitally disrupt this sector. The founders hold decades of experience in investment banking, corporate finance and software engineering respectively, working across markets like India, Si