{"id":389613,"date":"2018-12-18T20:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-shoppers-watched-by-police-against-their-will\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T20:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:09:19","slug":"presstv-uk-shoppers-watched-by-police-against-their-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-shoppers-watched-by-police-against-their-will\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK shoppers watched by police against their will"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A new report shows the British police are forcing people to have their faces scanned as part of a controversial surveillance scheme which is being rolled out in London. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Tuesday report in the Evening Standard said police officers testing the Live Facial Recognition technology in central neighborhoods of London were treating shoppers in an invasive manner.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the Liberty human rights organization told the newspaper that anyone who declined to cooperate with police officers on the ground and avoided their cameras was treated as suspicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes despite a previous statement by the Scotland Yard, the investigative police force in London, saying that the trial roll-out of the\u00a0scheme would not affect ordinary people and only those on police\u2019s watch list would\u00a0become involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police also said last week that \u201canyone who declines to be scanned will not be viewed as suspicious by police officers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/18\/583299\/London-police-facial-recognition-outrage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report shows the British police are forcing people to have their faces scanned as part of a controversial surveillance scheme which is being rolled out in London. A Tuesday report in the Evening Standard said police officers testing the Live Facial Recognition technology in central neighborhoods of London were treating shoppers in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}