WA facial recognition trial scans one million faces, leading to 122 arrests
The five-month Western Australia police trial of real-time facial recognition technology scanned over 1.3 million faces across 43 locations, resulting in 122 arrests and nine false alerts.
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2 publishers have covered this in 2 articles since 2 Nov 2026. The Guardian published first, on 2 November at 02:02 UTC; Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories followed 35h 58m later. The most recent article, from Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories, appeared on 3 November at 14:00 UTC.
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