Home Ministry Won't Say What is Happening to Nationwide Facial Recognition Tender | the Quint

In a series of curious developments, the Ministry of Home Affairs’ tender for a controversial nationwide facial recognition system has been postponed a fourth consecutive time. The NCRB, which has “conceptualised the Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS)” as an effort towards “modernising the police force, information gathering, criminal identification,” had issued the Request for Proposal on 4 July and was supposed to open the technical bids on 19 August.

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