Mass surveillance in India

Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population.^[1] Mass surveillance in India includes Surveillance, Telephone tapping, Open-source intelligence, Lawful interception, and surveillance under Indian Telegraph Act, 1885.

In recent years, India has seen use of facial-recognition technology by the law enforcement. Telangana is the most surveilled state in India with 36 CCTV cameras per 1,000 people, while cities Delhi and Chennai have more cameras per square mile than cities in China.^[2]^[3]

^ "Mass Surveillance Technologies". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
^ Inzamam, Qadri; Qadri, Haziq (2022-07-15). "Telangana Is Inching Closer to Becoming a Total Surveillance State". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
^ Loganathan, Sonikka (2023-05-05). "Do CCTV cameras protect us or invade our privacy?". The Hindu. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

[https://www.eff.org/issues/mass-surveillance-technologies-1] "Mass Surveillance Technologies". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 26 August 2014.

[2] Inzamam, Qadri; Qadri, Haziq (2022-07-15). "Telangana Is Inching Closer to Becoming a Total Surveillance State". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-09-03.

[3] Loganathan, Sonikka (2023-05-05). "Do CCTV cameras protect us or invade our privacy?". The Hindu. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

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