Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests

November 2, 2026 · 2:02 am 1 sources

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• Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
  The Guardian · November 2, 2026 02:02
  Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast More than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition…