NSW Police only stopped using a facial recognition algorithm that it had used for more than a decade when the vendor pulled support, not because the force acted on accuracy concerns.
In February, the country’s largest policing agency revealed the algorithm had been deactivated within NSW Police’s PhotoTrac Suspect Identification System (SIS), a platform used to create photographic lineups.
The Cognitec Systems algorithm had been used since 2011, with NSW …
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