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"On June 22, Western Australian police became the nation’s first law
enforcement agency to use live facial recognition technology to find persons of
interest.
The trial involves a clearly marked van with cameras driving around Perth and
Mandurah. It scans the faces of everyone it passes, comparing them against a
watchlist of about 4,000 people. It includes those with outstanding arrest
warrants, reportable offenders, people subject to lawful exclusion orders, and
missing persons.
The exercise is overt and widely publicised, with the dates of deployments
posted in advance.
In its first week, media reports put the trial at more than 130,000 faces
scanned and 33 alerts. It led to 18 arrests, along with engagements with
registered sex offenders. Work that would have taken weeks of conventional
investigative effort has been done in days by a single van.
But harder questions surround its governance. Can we really call it a “trial”?
Who gets to authorise such deployments? And who checks the safeguards?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
