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India is on the threshold of setting up a gigantic national Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS), which the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), under the home ministry, has laboured to insist will be used exclusively for criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organisations and units across the country. The contract bids, invited in July, were to close earlier this month. Possibly the world's largest facial recognition project, the proposed AFRS will use images from sources like CCTV cameras, newspapers and raids to identify criminals by

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