Western Australian Police concludes trial of facial recognition technology
Western Australian Police has concluded a trial of facial recognition technology, according to reporting by MLex. No details about the trial's scope, results, or next steps have been disclosed in the available information.
Why this matters: Police facial recognition trials rarely stay trials for long. They either get quietly expanded or quietly buried, and the public usually finds out after the fact. Western Australia running one of these programs matters because facial recognition in policing shifts power in a specific direction: officers can identify people in public without stopping them, without consent, and often without the person ever knowing it happened. What the trial found, what data it collected, and whether it ends here are the questions worth pressing.
Who should care: Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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