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

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Police in Western Australia tested live facial recognition cameras in vans over five months. The system scanned more than a million faces and led to 122 arrests, but it also produced nine wrong alerts.

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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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