In the modern digital landscape, navigating the web often feels like walking through a heavily surveilled labyrinth. Every click, scroll, and tap is monitored, analyzed, and monetized by an opaque network of advertising technologies (adtech) and data brokers. While the regulatory frameworks governing this data collection have slowly evolved—most notably through recent state-level laws—the foundational […]
Surveillance in the Shadows: Delhi Police, Facial Recognition, and the Transparency Crisis at Jantar Mantar
New Delhi: In an era where advanced policing technologies are quietly reshaping the public sphere, the boundary between maintaining law and order and state overreach has become razor-thin. Recent revelations surrounding the deployment of live Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance vans and facial recognition technology (FRT) during student-led protests at New Delhi’s historic Jantar Mantar have […]