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Western Australia just rolled out live facial recognition — and it’s already scanning 130K faces in a week, leading to 19 arrests. Police say it’s a win for public safety and privacy, but critics are sounding the alarm. The state’s privacy watchdog wasn’t consulted, warning of collective privacy harms, and experts say real-time scanning is far more invasive than CCTV. Accuracy issues loom — false matches can stop innocent people, and algorithms often misidentify women, youth, and people of color. And there’s the chilling specter of “function creep”: what starts as a targeted tool could soon become a surveillance tool for protests or broader systems — with biometric data that can’t be changed if leaked.

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