The students are at top priority, educationally n security-wise, so they need not worry and have their parents worried for them. The Honorable Prime Minister has tweeted, and I am sure that he will take strict action against all those people who are responsible for this leak. So students, plz go back to your parents n homes.
Sonam, it's done, bro. Don't extend this. Keep the spirit for another day if there be a need, which I doubt, n eat something. If u want, will send u food from home.
#Breaking : Delhi police has employed “Ikshana” an advanced, AI-powered mobile CCTV surveillance vehicle at the protest site, featuring 360-degree cameras, facial recognition, and real-time command room feed to surveil the youth.
We have been told by Court and govt that Aadhar is not proof of residence or identity or citizenship or anything else.
So is this the real use of biometric and other data collected under Aadhar?
State surveillance, criminalisation of freedoms, police access to data of all dissenting citizens.
Techies led by Nandan Nilekani and RS Sharma, you played a role in the making of this police state.
And don’t forget the other much touted tech enabled convenience- Digiyatra at the airport. It is premised on facial recognition data. It’s a private entity.
Who gets your data and why?
My students sometimes ask why they should memorise things in the age of Google and LLMs. But internalised facts are your bullshit filters and your raw material for creative association. Facts outside your head are inert.
It was announed in Jan that Delhi police will use AI smart glasess made by Ajna Lens - a company built at IIT Bombay with investments from Lenskart and Vijay Shekhar Sharma. Who is questioning these people? IIT Bombay's support for govt blocking Telegram is no surprise then.
While numbers and specifics are hard to ascertain, anecdotally, it does seem like content restrictions at some scale have started since last evening. A combination of platforms fecklessly acting on government takedown requests, and mindless application of their community guidelines is resulting in the removal of important evidence of police brutality on July 20th.
Today, Substack is launching an AI detection feature, via an integration with @pangram. Going forward, you’ll be able to scan posts, replies, and comments on the Substack app to see an estimate of how much of it was written by a human, or with AI assistance.