Facial Recognition

While AI promises to transform criminal justice by increasing operational efficiency and improving public safety, it also comes with risks around privacy, accountability, fairness and human rights.

Despite the ruling against Bunnings, Australian businesses can continue to collect your biometric information without your explicit consent by simply putting up signs.

While many people are comfortable with using facial recognition technology on their phone, they are less happy when it’s the government or private groups identifying them.

Views differ between owners and non-owners of smartglasses. But both groups agree the technology can help people.

AI impacts many things beyond the flashy chatbots – often in ways that quietly improve everyday processes.

A UN report proposes seven recommendations for addressing gaps in current AI governance. It’s a small step forward, but it needs refining.

Facial recognition technology is not new, but using your face to pay for shopping is. New research has identified what will help consumers embrace this new tech, and what could stop them.

The decision underscores the importance of strengthening privacy laws and enforcement powers of regulators.

As police departments across the US and the world adopt real-time crime centers, there’s a need for better public understanding of how these centers work.

A risk-based approach to regulating AI can help minimise the dangers of the new technology

Automated facial recognition is becoming widespread in Australia. The technology has already been used by retail outlets, sport stadiums and casinos around the country. And in November, the Australian…

Police can reconstruct someone’s movements for days or weeks at a time, without any court oversight.

The Rotorua woman wrongly identified by a supermarket facial recognition system says ethnicity was a ‘huge factor’. Her case shows why human-centered design is needed to avoid misuse, bias and harm.

State surveillance of citizens is growing all over the world, but it is a fact of daily life in China. People are developing mental tactics to distance themselves from it.

Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are worried about biased AI and the need to perform the ‘right’ expressions and body language for the algorithms.

Our facial information is sensitive – yet companies and individuals can collect, sell and manipulate it without our consent. Australian law must change to protect us all.

Police use of surveillance technologies — like security cameras and artificial intelligence — is becoming more widespread. Measures are needed to protect people’s privacy and avoid misidentification.

Face recognition technology follows earlier biometric surveillance techniques, including fingerprints, passport photos and iris scans. It’s the first that can be done without the subject’s knowledge.

2024 will see a massive expansion in Australia’s digital ID system. Good tech and strong guardrails will make Australia a world leader in this important area.

There are many programs where people can generate art using AI. However, this comes with a risk of non-Indigenous people generating Indigenous art, which negatively affects Indigenous artists.

Key to diagnosing foetal alcohol syndrome is an assessment of certain facial features. A 3D facial scan is expensive but 2D images may offer a solution.

Research suggests that photo ID checks at polling stations risk voters being turned away because of errors.

Preventing theft on farms is much more difficult than in urban areas for many reasons – but new technological developments may help curb the crimes.

Civil liberties groups in the UK and elsewhere want to stop the police from using this technology altogether, but that’s going too far.

Many AI algorithms, like facial recognition software, have been shown to be discriminatory to people of color, especially those who are Black.