Victoria to ban AI workplace surveillance, biometric tracking


Victorian employers would be barred from using AI to track workers’ behaviour and from mining biometric data to read their emotions without a legitimate purpose, under sweeping new laws designed to stop invasive workplace surveillance.

The proposed legislation, which Premier Jacinta Allan said would be the toughest in the country if passed, comes just months after the state government agreed to progress options to reform the Victoria’s 20-year-old general surveillance …

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