With the help of the software, the state police personnel can check the suspect with the hotlist of criminals.Currently, the leading face recognition software are: Amazon Rekognition; Face Recognition and Face Detection by Lambda Labs, Microsoft Face API; Google Cloud Vision and IBM Watson Visual Recognition, among others. In China, startup Megvii and AI unicorns like SenseTime, CloudWalk and Yitu have made facial recognition commonplace in China. "The first casualty of the absence of regulatory framework for facial recognition technology is people's right to privacy," Duggal told IANS recently. "The use of facial recognition technology by a government for mass surveillance can encroach on democratic freedoms," he said in December last year.Amazon has also defended the face recognition. "A facial recognition system is a great investigation enhancer for identification of: criminals, missing children/persons, unidentified dead bodies and unknown traced children/persons.

Source: Economic Times October 21, 2019 12:45 UTC