WA Police’s facial recognition trial delivered strong results. But was it an ethical success?
Tibor Janas/Pexels, The Conversation, CC BY-SA The results of Australia’s first live facial recognition trial have been released. Since June 2026, the Western Australian Police Force has been trialling the technology across metropolitan and regional WA. During the trial, more than 900,000 faces were scanned, generating 209 alerts (notifications that a scanned face matched someone from a police watch list) and 79 arrests. The technology identified and engaged 114 registered sex offenders…
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