The advancement in technology is actually saving lives by identifying missing children and reuniting them with their families.
Thanks to an innovative new facial recognition system (FRS), almost 3,000 missing children have been identified by city police and efforts are under way to reunite them with their families.
The FRS was employed by the Delhi police department on a trial basis to scan the faces of 45,000 children living in children’s homes.
During its testing phase between April 6 and April 10, 2,930 kids were recognized as missing children.
The technology uses a massive database of photographs and profiles to match the facial features of any child to that of a “missing person”. If city police are given free use of the tech, it could track down thousands more children so they can be reunited with their families.
According to NDTV, children’s rights organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan is working on a proposal that will allow the Delhi police department to use the software free of charge.
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is also campaigning for the software’s utilization.
There are always pros and cons to our Technical Intelligence. This happens to be a pro. My view is, it is always about our intentions. How do we choose to use Technology? In a malevolent or benevolent way.
Although this is good news for the families involved. I'm hesitant to be truly happy about this. Don't get me wrong though: this IS good news!
But... I'm affraid that next thing we know is a worldwide campaign to implant our children with a RFID chip at birth, so we won't "lose" them in the forst place, thereby taking the next giant step towards Orwell's vision. In my case it would be better to look at the root causes of problems and not band-aid them with solutions that force us to give up our freedoms.
Just my two cents. Thanks for all the great updates @senseicat!
I appreciate and value your remarks and agree that there are inevitably pros and cons to every new advancement.
really incredible technological progress, it is certainly very useful. happy to see people who gather with his family.
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In this way, the progress of technology is going one step further. And you are introducing good people to the new one. Therefore, I am following you. I hope you get a better post in the coming days.