Handing over Delhi and Bengaluru airports' facial recognition trial run to a cloud-based Portuguese tech firm 'Vision-Box' has raised privacy and security concerns.
For the three-month long trials, which began on September 6 for passengers taking Vistara flights at Terminal 3, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) has roped in the Lisbon-headquartered firm for technical and software support. Vision-Box is already working with the Kempegowda International Airport (Bengaluru) for an end-to-end paperless biometric programme since July.
Vision-Box's facial recognition technology is a cloud-ready Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) architecture, and more than 80 international airports are using its solutions at the moment.
"There are already data privacy concerns in the country. We have to see that whether the servers on which the personal data will be stored are located in India or abroad...it's nearly impossible to trust any company since there have been several instances of data compromises at large internet companies like Facebook and Google," says Sanjay Kaushik, MD, Netrika Consulting, a corporate security and risk consulting firm.
Engaging a foreign tech firm that had set up shop in the country only about a year ago has not gone down well with experts in aviation and privacy laws. In India, the company has three board members - Bento Antonio Brazio Correia, Miguel Leitmann (who's also the company's global CEO) and Saurabh Kumar. In 2015, a European private equity firm Keensight Capital invested an undisclosed amount in the parent entity.
12/09/19 Manu Kaushik/Business Today
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For the three-month long trials, which began on September 6 for passengers taking Vistara flights at Terminal 3, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) has roped in the Lisbon-headquartered firm for technical and software support. Vision-Box is already working with the Kempegowda International Airport (Bengaluru) for an end-to-end paperless biometric programme since July.
Vision-Box's facial recognition technology is a cloud-ready Identity Management as a Service (IdMaaS) architecture, and more than 80 international airports are using its solutions at the moment.
"There are already data privacy concerns in the country. We have to see that whether the servers on which the personal data will be stored are located in India or abroad...it's nearly impossible to trust any company since there have been several instances of data compromises at large internet companies like Facebook and Google," says Sanjay Kaushik, MD, Netrika Consulting, a corporate security and risk consulting firm.
Engaging a foreign tech firm that had set up shop in the country only about a year ago has not gone down well with experts in aviation and privacy laws. In India, the company has three board members - Bento Antonio Brazio Correia, Miguel Leitmann (who's also the company's global CEO) and Saurabh Kumar. In 2015, a European private equity firm Keensight Capital invested an undisclosed amount in the parent entity.
12/09/19 Manu Kaushik/Business Today
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