<p>Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>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.</p><p>WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/02/wa-police-facial-recognition-technology-trial">Continue reading...</a>
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Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
<p>Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>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.</p><p>WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/nov/02/wa-police-facial-recognition-technology-trial">Continue reading...</a>