Setback for government’s facial recognition push
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has called for the redrafting of a government bill designed to establish a national facial recognition system.
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) has called for the redrafting of a government bill designed to establish a national facial recognition system.
Victoria will begin uploading driver’s licence photographs to the federal government National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution (NDLFRS).
Optus has endorsed the creation of a national biometrics system that will offer services based on a range of facial images held by federal, state and territory bodies.
Facebook is opening up its face recognition technology to all users with an option to opt out, the social media company said on Tuesday, as it discontinued a related feature called "Tag Suggestions."
Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s new app has a feature that will track your location so the bank can better figure out if a transaction is dodgy.
New South Wale transport minister Andrew Constance has revealed plans to roll out facial recognition technology across the transport network as an alternative to Opal cards.
A bungled biometrics project that cost the government at least $26 million was “premature” and “poorly scoped,” a parliamentary inquiry has concluded.
The government says it will seek to have two key pieces of enabling legislation for a national facial identification and verification system introduced into parliament and passed before the end of the year.
NEC facial recognition technology will be used to screen athletes, volunteers and staff at stadiums and facilities at next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Amazon.com said shareholders rejected proposals to curb and audit its facial recognition service on Wednesday, just as members of Congress indicated there was bipartisan support to one day regulate the technology.
San Francisco officials voted 8 to 1 to ban the purchase and use of facial recognition technology by city personnel, in a move to regulate tools that local Silicon Valley companies helped develop.
The Northern Territory government has put $375,000 towards implementing NT support for a national biometrics matching system.
Researchers at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have demonstrated how a small, square, printed patch can be used as “cloaking device” to hide people from AI object detectors.
A group of leading AI researchers from industry and academia have signed an open letter calling on Amazon to “stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement”.
Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith paints a bleak picture of a future where facial recognition technology has been rolled out without restriction.