WA Police ran live facial recognition across 130,000 faces — here's the operational data gap security platforms need to solve
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WA Police scanned 130,000 faces in 7 days. The false-positive rate isn't the interesting engineering problem. Seven days. 130,000 faces scanned. 33 alerts fired. 18 arrests. One confirmed false positive — self-reported by the agency running the trial. If you're building or operating any system that…
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- 2026-08-28 21:06 · DEV Community — AI
WA Police ran live facial recognition across 130,000 faces — here's the operational data gap security platforms need to solve