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

WA Police concluded a five-month trial of real-time facial recognition deployed from surveillance vans. Across 100 deployments in 43 locations, the system scanned 1,380,882 faces, producing 122 arrests and nine false alerts, and led officers to engage 146 registered sex offenders. The articles give no details on the system vendor, accuracy metrics, data retention or oversight arrangements, so defenders and privacy reviewers should look for these in later reporting.

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