Deployments of surveillance vans over five months resulted in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders
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More 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.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/02/wa-police-facial-recognition-technology-trial
Author : Ima Caldwell and Penry Buckley
Publish date : 2026-11-02 06:12:00
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