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Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
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PUBLISHEDNov 2, 2026, 6:12 AM
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Deployments of surveillance vans over five months resulted 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 technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts.
WA police said under the…
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