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# Faces of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/faces-of-the-day-46/
- Published: 2020-08-31T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-31T00:53:03.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

Police have been quietly setting up a $9 million **facial recognition system** that can take a live feed from CCTV cameras and identify people from it.

This would push New Zealand into new territory for tracking citizens.

It will be run by a non-police contractor – US firm Dataworks Plus – and collect 15,000 facial images a year, with that expected to expand up to 10-fold.

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