AdvManoj @AdvManoj@mstdn.social

After he was overthrown and ousted from Delhi in 1540, Emperor Humayun and his family sought refuge in Iran. His son Akbar was born on the long journey. The baby, left in the care of attendants for safety, rejoined his parents 3yrs later. Humayun, curious whether Akbar would recognize his mother. Although she entered the court without fanfare, Akbar immediately ran into his mother’s arms. This remarkable act of recognition is included in the Akbarnama as early evidence of the emperor’s greatness

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In the initial years, Indians turned their noses up at watery Sahib tea.

A large scale promotional campaign by the Indian Tea Association made tea popular & perhaps more milky? Tea breaks in factories & offices, tea stalls at railways stations, and that’s how the British made tea-drinkers out of us!

Chai. Chaya. Chaha. Choi. Chaa. Call it what you may. Runs in our bloodstreams today.

Free fall Indian Economy will soon declared effect of Chrislamic conspiracy. #GDP index measurement is Muhgal concept, it will be abolished & in #Aryavarat we will calculate economic conditions of country based on donations received by BJP & payments disbursed to trolls.

Expect Modi to act and promptly change the way GDP is calculated to solve the crisis.

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I agree 100%. On Twitter as a journalist who already got frequently attacked, I chose my words carefully (barring the occasional angry, dripping with sarcasm tweets that one has to indulge in time and again for sanity).

Here, I feel free to speak my mind, and speak to like minded people who are not out to misinterpret everything that is said.

It's absolutely a feel good moment.

#TotallyTootNotTweet

Temporary President's Rule Cannot Be Used To Permanently Repeal J&K Special Status: Petitioners In Article 370 Cases [Read Rejoinder] https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/temporary-presidents-rule-cannot-be-used-permanently-repeal-jk-special-status-petitioners-article-370-cases--149738#.XcwlwodkhBg.twitter

NCRB says they have the right to build National Facial Recognition System because the cabinet says so ignoring the Supreme court judgement on privacy calling for a surveillance law
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/ncrb-automated-facial-recognition-system-afrs-mha-extends-last-date-tender-bidding

@AdvManoj

Kudos to you, AdvManoj!! 😂 😂 😂

It takes iron will power to NOT want to form a government and lynch and rape the state's people, these days! 😂 😂 😂

8. The legal notice said the facial recognition system has "a complete lack of legality” and is “likely to result in the creation of powerful surveillance architecture that will inevitably be prone to misuse." Read the legal notice here. https://internetfreedom.in/maskon/

7. Privacy has been upheld as a "fundamental right" by the Supreme Court. The court has said the invasion in privacy can only be justified if it has (a) a legal basis, (b) a legitimate purpose, and (c) it is proportionate to the need for the purpose. read https://barandbench.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Nariman.pdf

6. In July,
@internetfreedom
, a non-profit, sent a legal notice to the govt asking it to withdraw the tender. It said the project did not have a "legal basis" and "violated" the right to privacy of citizens.

5. It will have options to upload “bulk subject images” and “CCTV feeds” to “generate alerts if a blacklist match is found.” The video feeds will be sourced from “CCTVs deployed in various critical identified locations” or “from private or other public organization’s video feeds"

4. The system will also “add photographs obtained from newspapers, raids, sent by people, sketches etc. to the criminal’s repository tagged for sex, age, scars, tattoos, etc. for future searches.”

3. According to the tender document, the proposed system aims to access facial images of citizens from across govt databases like passport, courts, prisons, lost and found persons, criminal tracking systems, or “any other image database available with police/other entity.”

2. The Home Ministry of India, in July this year, floated a tender to procure software and services for a National-level Automated Facial Recognition System. On November 7, it extended the deadline to accept bids from private firms up till January 3, 2020.

Thread: Indian govt will soon launch world's biggest face recognition system. A tool that can source citizens' images from multiple govt databases, CCTV feeds. Can identify a person by facial features and tag them. And what will it do to safeguard citizens' privacy, consent? Read