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WA police facial recognition trial scans 1.38 million faces, leads to 122 arrests

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WA Police ran a five-month trial of real-time facial recognition from surveillance vans, which ended on a Saturday. The technology scanned 1,380,882 faces across 100 deployments in 43 regional and metropolitan locations, resulting in 122 arrests and nine false alerts. Officers also engaged with 146 registered sex offenders during the trial.

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Mon 2 November06:12Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrestsThe Guardian Technology

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