{"id":1012595,"date":"2026-06-06T08:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012595"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:45:31","slug":"meity-secretary-s-krishnan-signals-stricter-government-controls-for-ai-biometric-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/meity-secretary-s-krishnan-signals-stricter-government-controls-for-ai-biometric-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"MeitY Secretary S Krishnan signals stricter government controls for AI, biometric devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India will need to expand strategic autonomy and control over hardware connected to artificial intelligence (AI) and biometric authentication systems, electronics and information technology secretary S Krishnan said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re such a large market and so reliant on various devices, you also need to have some degree of strategic autonomy. This is a concern not just for India. Europe and the US do it. We&#8217;ve started doing it in some sectors like telecom and for CCTV cameras. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India will need to expand strategic autonomy and control over hardware connected to artificial intelligence (AI) and biometric authentication systems, electronics and information technology secretary S Krishnan said on Friday. &#8220;When you&#8217;re such a large market and so reliant on various devices, you also need to have some degree of strategic autonomy. This is a concern not just for India. Europe and the US do it. We&#8217;ve started doing it in some sectors like telecom and for CCTV cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012609,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012595\/revisions\/1012609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}