Western Australia’s facial recognition trial scanned over a million faces, leading to 122 arrests and highlighting the technology’s significant impact on policing.
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Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offendersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMore than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts.WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations. Continue reading...
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