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2022-06-16
No law backing facial recognition? | Views of Anushkaa Arora in Money Control.

Although there exist no legal safeguards for use of facial recognition, it is not illegal, said Anushkaa Arora, principal and founder of ABA Law Office said.
Arora said data protection and privacy laws in India are still at a nascent stage and would evolve in the future.
With the Supreme Court’s K. S. Puttaswamy v Union of India judgement recognising Right to Privacy as a fundamental right, and with a Personal Data Protection Bill in the works, Arora said informational privacy matters would get a boost.
“However, unless India does not have a strong legal folio to protect data and privacy of citizens, the government must be aware and safeguard citizens from possible data breaches or scams. Until then, as blunt as it may sound, any kind of public data for government or private use is at risk,” Arora said.

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