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AI Security

Australia's First Live Face-Scanning Police Trial Has Already Checked 130,000 People. Experts Are Alarmed.

Western Australia Police ran facial recognition cameras across Perth and Fremantle for weeks before its own privacy watchdog got a proper look. Researchers warn the system may be least accurate for the very communities it is most likely to scan.

4 min read
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Policy & Regulation

Smart Glasses With Hidden Cameras Are Getting Popular. Privacy Experts Are Alarmed.

Ordinary-looking eyewear that secretly records video is moving from novelty to mainstream, and the rules haven't kept up.

3 min read
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Identity & Access

NSW Plans to Share Licence Photos With National Face-Matching Database

A new bill before the New South Wales parliament would connect the state to a federal facial recognition system, hand police access to toll road camera images, and let investigators apply to search seized phones and laptops. Civil liberties groups say the changes amount to mass surveillance with too few safeguards.

3 min read
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Identity & Access

Google rolls out selfie video sign-in for locked-out account holders

The new recovery option sits alongside email and phone number checks, and is aimed at people who cannot get back into their Google account any other way.

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Policy & Regulation

Western Australia Deploys Live Facial Recognition at Bus Station, Makes First Real-Time Arrest

A camera on a police van scanned hundreds of faces a minute at a Perth transit hub. Civil liberties groups say the trial raises serious questions about bias, accuracy, and surveillance creep.

3 min read
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Identity & Access

On-Device Age Checks: The Quiet Fix to a Loud Privacy Problem

New age verification laws are forcing websites to check how old you are. A newer approach keeps your face on your phone instead of shipping it to a server.

4 min read
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AI Security

This Researcher Is Designing Clothes That Break Facial Recognition Software

A security researcher plans to unveil clothing patterns that confuse the AI systems governments use to track people in public — without their knowledge or consent.

4 min read
Identity & Access

UK's Under-16 Social Media Ban Turns Every Signup Into an Identity Checkpoint

Spring 2027 rules will force ID uploads or face scans at account creation. The IAM bill comes due — and so does the breach surface.

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