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Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a security story. The Guardian World is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 2 Nov 2026, 02:02 UTC. The headline in use is “Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Deployments of surveillance vans over five months result in nine false alerts and led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition…
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- First reported by The Guardian World
Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
Reported by 1 outlet
- The Guardian