WA police facial recognition trial scans 1.38 million faces, leads to 122 arrests
AIWestern Australia Police say a five-month real-time facial recognition trial scanned 1,380,882 faces across 100 deployments and produced 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts. Police put the error rate at 0.00065%, but civil liberties advocate Bill Rowlings says that figure should be measured against convictions from the arrests.
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The Guardian · AI · Ima Caldwell and Penry Buckley · theguardian.comPublished · added here
Original title: Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests