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NEW DELHI: A plan by police in India to monitor women’s expressions with facial recognition technology to prevent street harassment will lead to intrusive policing and privacy violations, digital rights experts warned on Friday. In Lucknow, about 500 kilometres from New Delhi, police identified some 200 harassment hotspots that women visit often and where most complaints are reported, said police …

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