{"id":1028911,"date":"2026-08-15T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028911"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:02:41","slug":"sc-to-hear-mps-plea-on-facial-recognition-tech-at-protest-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/sc-to-hear-mps-plea-on-facial-recognition-tech-at-protest-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"SC to hear MP&#8217;s plea on facial recognition tech at protest sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea filed by Rajya Sabha CPI(M) MP AA Rahim against the deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT) and allied biometric-surveillance measures by police at protest sites. <\/p>\n<p>A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant tagged the plea with other pending petitions concerning the recent student protests organised by the Cockroach Janta Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea filed by Rajya Sabha CPI(M) MP AA Rahim against the deployment of facial recognition technology (FRT) and allied biometric-surveillance measures by police at protest sites. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant tagged the plea with other pending petitions concerning the recent student protests organised by the Cockroach Janta Party.<\/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-1028911","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\/1028911","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=1028911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028913,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028911\/revisions\/1028913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}