New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- An activist has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Telangana chief electoral officer (CEO), alleging that electoral roll photographs were shared with the state government and later used to build a facial recognition system.

"I have filed a complaint with the CEO Telangana, Election Commission of India on how Government of Telangana used photographs from Electoral Rolls to build a facial recognition/AI system. This has happened because ECI has shared our data during Aadhaar Voter ID linking exercise," said Srinivas Kodali, an independent researcher and tech expert, in a post on X along with screenshots of the complaint.

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