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8 stories taggedfacial recognition.
Australia's Online Safety Regulator Tells Smart Glasses Makers to Blur Strangers' Faces by Default
eSafety has called on companies like Meta to build automatic face-blurring into camera-equipped smart glasses, warning that privacy can't be traded away for accessibility.
Who Is Watching You Right Now, and What Are They Doing With It?
From supermarket cameras to workplace keystroke logs, surveillance of ordinary people has quietly become a growth industry. AI is making it faster, cheaper and harder to spot.
Australian Supermarkets Are Testing Face-Scanning Technology on Shoppers
Coles and Woolworths have confirmed trials of facial recognition software in their stores. Privacy advocates say collecting biometric data from grocery shoppers crosses a line.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.