Vidushi Marda is no longer with Carnegie India.
Vidushi Marda was a nonresident research analyst at Carnegie India. She is a legal researcher who focuses on the interplay between emerging technologies, policy, and society. She is a program officer with Article 19’s Team Digital, where she deals with the ethical, legal, and regulatory issues that arise from algorithmic decision-making, with a specific focus on the human rights implications of machine learning.
She is working on strengthening human rights considerations on internet infrastructure, particularly at internet governance bodies like the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She is also a research associate at DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam, where she looks at content regulations vis-à-vis the increased dominance of private platforms on the Internet.
Her work has been cited by the Supreme Court of India in a seminal ruling on the right to privacy, the United Kingdom House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, The International Association of Law and Politics, and other academic and policy-focused journals. She is an occasional media commentator and her work has appeared in several Indian publications.
This webinar seeks to explore the kinds of technology available to the police, its integration into the system — and how they can be used to safeguard the public, without infringing on rights and freedoms.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly embedded in society – from curating social media feeds and assisting law enforcement, to deciding an individual’s creditworthiness and aiding in healthcare.
In recent months, the Indian government has started employing facial recognition to enhance law enforcement capabilities.
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed a nationwide Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS) that will use images from CCTV cameras, newspapers, and raids to identify criminals against existing records in the Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and System (CCTNS) database.
The Indian government has announced plans for an overarching national Automated Facial Recognition System (AFRS), which will be used for “criminal identification, verification and its dissemination among various police organisations and units across the country.”