Australian police and policing
Australia needs to face up to the dangers of facial recognition technology | David Paris | Opinion
In the 20 years of the “war on terror” Australia has led from the front in expanding powers for law enforcement and ramping up surveillance at the expense of public rights and freedoms. Among the seemingly endless barrage of national security legislation and surveillance that creeps into every aspect of our personal lives, more and …
TikTok removes Australian account purporting to hunt paedophiles | Technology
Social networking platform TikTok has removed an Australian account purporting to lure alleged paedophiles to meetings and then capture their confrontation on film, as the NSW police warn people not to take the law into their own hands. In what appears to be a new form of the trend of online accounts hunting child sex …
Plan for massive facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns | Technology
If you’ve had a driver’s licence photo or passport photo taken in Australia in the past few years, it’s likely your face will end up in a massive new national network the federal government is trying to create. Victoria and Tasmania have already begun to upload driver’s licence details to state databases that will eventually …
