Indian police trace 3,000 missing children in just four days using facial recognition technology

Police in the Indian city of New Delhi have identified nearly 3,000 missing children within just four days of launching a trial of a new facial recognition system. Police began using the technology on 6 April after the High Court commissioned a test run of the software, the country's Ministry of Women and Child Development said in an affidavit. The facial recognition technology was used on around 45,000 children throughout the city, 2,930 of which were recognised as missing. Officers are now in the process of reuniting them with their families, local media reports. "India currently has almost 200,000 missing children and about 90,000 lodged in various child care institutions," a spokesperson for the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) campaign group told The Better India website.