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    "https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-to-be-rolled-out-across-uk-after-human-rights-challenge-fails-13534598",
    "bbc.com",
    "Challenge over Met Police's use of live facial recognition lost",
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    "'It keeps Londoners safe': Met Police wins live facial recognition case",
    "Full Met Police response video (Twitter)",
    "Big Brother Watch video response 1 (Twitter)",
    "Big Brother Watch comments on Sky News (Twitter)",
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  "textContent": "https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-to-be-rolled-out-across-uk-after-human-rights-challenge-fails-13534598\n\nbbc.com\n\n### Challenge over Met Police's use of live facial recognition lost\n\nThe claim was brought over concerns the technology can be used in an arbitrary or discriminatory way.\n\n**TL;DR:**\n\n> _**Privacy campaigners have lost a High Court challenge aimed at limiting the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition technology.**_\n>\n> _**Youth worker Shaun Thompson, and Silkie Carlo, director of campaign group Big Brother Watch, brought the challenge over concerns that facial recognition could be used arbitrarily or in a discriminatory way.**_\n>\n> _**In a major victory for the continued roll-out of the technology, the High Court rejected claims that the Met Police had broken human rights and privacy law by scanning faces in public**_. **- BBC NEWS**\n\n**Clip of Response to the ruling from Met Police:**\n\nYouTube\n\n### 'It keeps Londoners safe': Met Police wins live facial recognition case\n\nThe Met Police has won a landmark High Court judgement that confirms that their use of live facial recognition technology across London is lawful and complie...\n\nFull Met Police response video (Twitter)\n\nBig Brother Watch video response 1 (Twitter)\n\nBig Brother Watch comments on Sky News (Twitter)\n\nOFF TOPIC: On Journalistic Ethics (click for more details)",
  "title": "Facial recognition to be 'rolled out' across UK after human rights challenge fails"
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