• Under the Digi Yatra initiative,Varanasi, Pune, Kolkata and Vijayawada airports are going to implement facial recognition technology which aims to make air travel paperless and hassle-free.
  • According to the Aviation Ministry, the biometric information collected from the passengers will be deleted 24 hours after flight departure and will also be compliant with the country’s data privacy and protection practices. However, India’s recently adopted Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB), 2019, fails to build a legal structure on the landmark Justice K.S. Puttaswamy vs Union of India judgment on the right of digital privacy.
  • A growing body of research shows that biometric scanning technologies coupled with AI have an inherent bias. A report by the U.S. NIST noted that facial recognition technology found Black, Brown and Asian individuals to be 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white male faces.