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Information is key to public support for police use of facial recognition technology

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Information is key to public support for police use of facial recognition technology
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.3eunvj6hr
Authors

Hine, Kelly, Fleet, Robert

Abstract

Police forces around the world, including in Australia, are using facial recognition apps to identify persons of interest on the spot. The public, while wary, are generally supportive.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 December 2021.
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