Hyderabad, Sept. 9 -- Independent researcher Srinivas Kodali has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Telangana, stating that electoral roll or voter photos from the ECI's database that was shared with the state government were misused of electoral roll photographs for its deployment of facial recognition applications using Real Time Digital Authentication of Identity (RTDAI).

"The Government of Telangana has developed the Real Time Digital Authentication of Identity (RTDAI) , a facial recognition system. This system relies on electoral roll photographs and demographic details to conduct AI/ML/deep learning-based facial recognition. This system was first used to verify pensioners in Tel...