Western Australia Police have finished a five-month trial of live facial recognition using vehicle-mounted cameras. The system scanned about 1.38 million faces across 100 deployments, led to 122 arrests and produced nine incorrect alerts. Civil liberties groups criticised the programme and called for independent judicial validation of its accuracy.
In England, an internal data protection assessment at Merseyside Police warns that the force may be keeping custody images of about 300,000 people that should already have been deleted. The review flags a risk that planned officer-initiated facial recognition searches could draw on those unlawfully kept images. Big Brother Watch condemned the retention.
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