As AI surveillance systems grow more sophisticated — capable of real-time facial recognition, behavioral profiling, and predictive flagging — the ethical obligations on deployers grow commensurately. India currently lacks a comprehensive national framework governing AI surveillance in private settings, notes Rituraj Sinha, Managing Director of SIS Ltd.
For decades, security meant people watching screens. Rows of monitors, banks of cameras, and the hope that human attention would hold long enough to catch something that mattered. It rarely did. Studies suggest that after just 20 minutes of continuous monitoring, a guard misses up to 95% of on-screen activity. The camera recorded everything. The system, in practice, saw very little.
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