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Send us Fan Mail S1E17 - Western Australia's live facial recognition trial, the real error rate behind the headline figures, and the privacy law that arrived nine days too late Western Australia Police became the first police force in Australia to deploy live facial recognition in public spaces. In five weeks, the system scanned more than 131,000 faces, generated 33 alerts, and led to 19 arrests - all before the state's new privacy law had fully come into force, and without the state's own pr...
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