Tag: Facial Recognition

Home Affairs revives facial recognition plan for airports

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A plan to introduce facial recognition SmartGates in the arrivals halls of Australia’s international airports has been revived, but the federal government will now adopt a two-step system that...

NSW deploys facial recognition system into prisons

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The New South Wales government is rolling out new facial recognition technology in the state’s prisons in a bid to accelerate identity enrolment and verification for those entering and...

Bunnings and Kmart hit with facial recognition investigation

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s privacy regulator has opened investigations into Bunnings and Kmart centred on the retailers’ use of facial recognition on customers. Preliminary inquiries have also commenced into the Good Guys...

Wait continues for facial recognition database legislation

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Amendments to the federal government’s highly controversial facial recognition database legislation were referred to the powerful national security committee nearly two years ago but an inquiry has yet to be...

Govt ‘steamrolling’ ahead with facial recognition plan

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Despite the necessary legislation not having been passed, the federal government is “streamrolling” ahead with its plan to launch a national facial recognition database and is already on the...
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