facial-recognition

Accurately verifying a person is who they say they are by comparing their face to official forms of ID can be improved by as much as 6%.

Australia’s privacy commissioner found Clearview AI breached the Australian Privacy Act by collecting sensitive information without consent.

The UNSW Face Test is currently the most challenging test available for identifying super-recognisers. You can take it here.

In 2020, the South Korean government exercised its right to access personal mobile phone data — consequently flattening Korea’s curve quickly, efficiently and without having to resort to the strict lockdowns seen in many other countries, including Australia.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has joined forces with its UK counterpart to investigate facial recognition company Clearview AI.

Facial recognition technology has a somewhat nefarious reputation in some police states and non-democratic countries. With the spread of this technology in Australia and other democratic countries, there are important questions about the legal implications of scanning, storing and sharing facial images.

Emerging facial recognition legislation shows the need for more clarity and standardisation. Developers and users of FRS technologies both should engage in the policy debate to define the coming standards.

The new Enterprise Biometric Identification Services system launched on Wednesday would improve Home Affairs’ ability to identify criminals and ‘persons of national security interest’ via face, finger, iris and voice recognition.

The facial recognition component of the Commonwealth’s myGovID app will likely begin public testing this year, according to the Digital Transformation Agency. Last week chief digital officer Peter Alexander told Senate estimates the biometric feature of myGovID would need to be refined before public testing begins. “We would like the biometric to be in by […]

The Australian privacy commissioner will investigate whether a facial recognition app utilised by 600 American police departments is being used by police in Australia. Facial recognition software Clearview AI allows law enforcement to use a photo of a suspect to search through a database of 3 billion images from across the internet. The technology has […]

Australian advocacy group Digital Rights Watch is calling out local councils over the “surveillance technology, data collection and privacy invasion” that is on the rise through various smart-city projects in towns and cities around the country.

The Victorian government is uploading data from driver licenses to the federal government’s National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution but will only allow it to be accessed by its own agencies, for now. The information includes the photographs, dates of birth, licence numbers and gender of licensees, but no information about traffic infringements or demerit […]

The world is changing fast, and business-as-usual will not prepare us for all that lies ahead. By embedding agile innovation processes into our work, the NSW Department of Education is accelerating education reform to match the speed of progress.

Australia Post has become the second digital identity service provider to receive the trust-mark this week, with its Digital iD system joining the Commonwealth’s own myGovID product.