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London police to use face scan tech, stoking privacy fears

by AP Business Writer
| January 24, 2020 5:05 AM

LONDON (AP) — London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology that raises worries about automated surveillance and erosion of privacy rights.

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