Facial Recognition in use by South Australia Police

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Facial Recognition in use by South Australia Police
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Deployment Status Stopped
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Start (2 January 2017, Documented, , No description)

City Adelaide
Country Australia
Involved Entities City Safe CCTV (Adelaide)
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Technology Deployed NEC Face Recognition Technology
Information Certainty Documented
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Datasets Used NEC Neoface (Dataset)
Deployment Type Surveillance
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managed by Adelaide City Council, South Australia Police
used by Adelaide City Council, South Australia Police
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Deployment Purpose: Surveillance

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CityAdelaide
Country Australia
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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