French President Macron managed to beat all comers in the recent Presidential election, but failed to win more than 50 percent of the vote, hitting just 28 percent in voter support, with his next-closest rival, Marine Le Pen finishing at 23 percent.
The two will now face off in a winner-take-all runoff election. It seems the Mumbai police are joining a growing list of police departments worldwide willing to become de facto guinea pigs for how to successfully utilize face recognition software to assure that dissenters don’t achieve too much success inspiring more dissent by tracking them in videos of protests and using the software to identify who the protestors are in the hope of arresting them.
The Gamdevi police are lauding the success of their Cyber Cell program to find the dissenters and gather them up. Protesters have been gathering outside a party chief’s residence, They have been filmed, identified, and had their digital lives scrubbed to determine who their affiliates are. Nation-states like China, Russia, and, to a lesser extent, India, have much less Rule of Law standards impeding the state from aggressively targeting non-direct offenders of laws for levels of surveillance and control far beyond (theoretically) the power states such as the United States of America possess.
From www.hindustantimes.com
2022-04-10 15:38:26
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Mumbai: Gamdevi police, which has been probing the rioting incident outside Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar’s residence Silver Oak, is now taking the help of cyber police to scrutinise call data records and social media chats of protesters to find out whether they were instigated by any political party or an organisation.
Police have also scanned the footage of CCTVs close to Silver Oak to find out if a recce has been conducted of Pawar’s residence before the protest. Advocate Gunaratan Sadavarte, who has been remanded in two days’ police custody, is being interrogated by police, said a senior IPS officer.
Meanwhile, senior police inspector RJ Rajbhar was suspended on Sunday following the MSRTC workers’ protest at Silver Oak. Rajbhar was the senior inspector of Gamdevi police station — which has the jurisdiction of the place where this incident took place on Friday. Soon after the protest, he was transferred to Local Arms unit.
