RESPONSIBLE AI #AIForAll - Adopting the Framework: A Use Case Approach

Valuable inputs were also provided by various Ministries/ Departments of the Government of India and regulatory Institutions, namely, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, the Department of Science & Technology, the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, and the Unique Identification Autho. [...] Additionally, due to the nature of the actors implementing FRT systems for security uses, the consequences of inaccuracy due to misidentification, perturbations, or bias within the FRT system may lead to gross violations of a person’s right to life and liberty.35 Further, there is potentially flawed incentivisation in the deployment of FRT systems, the consequences of which can be dire. [...] This includes the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union, 2000, Data Protection Act, 2018 and the UK-GDPR.41 In 2020, the Court of Appeal held that the use of live automated FRT was unlawful. [...] The Digi Yatra Foundation (‘DYF’), a not-for-profit company under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013 was established in 2019 for the implementation of the Digi Yatra Central Ecosystem.47 In 2021, the DYF approached NITI Aayog to identify a start-up for the development of Digi Yatra Central Ecosystem and assess the usability of the same and promote Indian start-ups. [...] Additional measures such as the use of self-sovereign identity to provide for greater individual control over digital identities, and the use of blockchain technology to help verify the credentials provided by Indian passengers (which are already part of the Digi Yatra Central Ecosystem) seek to improve the security and reliability of the Digi Yatra process.