Facial Recognition in use by South Australia Police
Information Certainty: Documented
Deployment Purpose: Surveillance
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Products and Institutions:
Product Deployed | NEC Face Recognition Technology |
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Institutions ⠉ | NEC |
Datasets | NEC Neoface (Dataset) |
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Status and Events:
Status | Stopped |
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Events | Start (2 January 2017, Documented, , No description) |
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Users:
Involved Entities | Smart City Safe CCTV Adelaide |
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Managed by | South Australia Police Adelaide City Council |
Used by | South Australia Police Adelaide City Council |
Location:
City | Adelaide |
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Country ⠉ | Australia |
Description[ ]
South Australia Police Force, like other police forces in Australia, have used facial recognition software from NEC. However they were banned from using facial recognition on the new Adelaide CCTV system.
'In Adelaide's CBD, SAPOL is already using FRT after successful trials were held in 2017 to apply software to CCTV, ATM, and some social media footage, with its NEC NeoFace system fully implemented in 2019. A police spokesperson said it was considered an "valuable investigate tool" that helped to "identify a suspect for a crime which, at times, can also prevent further crime". "Images are compared to a database that consists of photos of people that have previously been arrested in South Australia," he said 1