facial recognition
Health ministers urged to take action on home quarantine app privacy fears
Protections lacking, civil society groups warn.
Oct 14 2021 5:49PM
7-Eleven disables facial image capture on customer feedback tablets
After adverse privacy ruling.
Oct 14 2021 12:33PM
NSW to trial facial recognition, geolocation app for home quarantine
Adopts same technology as South Australia.
Sep 17 2021 1:35PM
ATO pilots facial verification on myGovID
Public beta gets underway.
Sep 7 2021 6:56AM
SA govt trials home quarantine app with facial recognition, GPS tracking
Built in-house in less than three months.
Aug 24 2021 12:41PM
OCR Labs earns govt digital ID accreditation
Becomes first private identity provider to do so.
Aug 17 2021 10:20AM
NAB pilots facial recognition for identity verification
Tests how solution matches up to government's AI ethics principles.
Jul 12 2021 12:07PM
Human Rights Commission calls for temporary ban on 'high-risk' govt facial recognition
And an independent AI safety commissioner.
May 28 2021 6:30AM
UN decries police use of racial profiling derived from big data
Says law enforcement must ensure technology does not reinforce biases.
Nov 27 2020 6:55AM
Digital identity legislation up for consultation
Ahead of private sector expansion.
Nov 17 2020 1:24PM
Amazon shifts some voice, face recognition computing to own chips
Follows moves by other tech giants.
Nov 13 2020 6:30AM
ATO re-tenders for myGovID anti-spoofing facial recognition software
Liveness detection public beta now not expected until September 2021.
Sep 28 2020 11:41AM
Facebook wins preliminary approval to settle US facial recognition lawsuit
After raising settlement offer by US$100m.
Aug 21 2020 6:42AM
Australian privacy watchdog launches investigation into Clearview AI
Teams up with UK's information commissioner.
Jul 9 2020 5:38PM
7-Eleven Australia deploys facial recognition on customer feedback tablets
Says technology is 'not used for any other purpose'.
Jun 22 2020 2:28PM
Victoria Police admits officers trialled Clearview AI facial recognition tool
After FOI documents released.
Jun 18 2020 9:58PM
Now Microsoft bans police use of facial recognition software
Until US laws introduced to regulate the tech.
Jun 12 2020 6:37AM
Services Australia put face matching to work for bushfire relief payments
Biometrics database trialled with hundreds displaced over summer.
Jun 5 2020 11:50AM
Queensland next to upload photos to national face matching database
Will join Victoria, SA and Tasmania.
May 13 2020 6:22AM
AFP admits to trialling controversial facial recognition tool Clearview AI
After initially denying usage.
Apr 15 2020 11:26AM
