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

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

The Guardian · Nov 2, 2026, 2:02 AM UTC

Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders 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.…