Jake Goldenfein, Swinburne University of Technology Australian police agencies are reportedly using a private, unaccountable facial recognition service that combines machine learning and wide-ranging data-gathering practices to identify members of the public from online photographs. The service, Clearview AI, is like a reverse image search for faces. You upload an image of someone’s face and… Read More
Close up: the government’s facial recognition plan could reveal more than just your identity
Jake Goldenfein, Swinburne University of Technology A Bill to set up the federal government’s biometric identity system is currently going through Parliament. But there are concerns over just how much information the system would be allowed to gather, and how that might be used to establish more than just the identity of a person. Strongly… Read More
MEDIA RELEASE: We need to have a serious talk about snooping
Protection from public sector snoops is okay for people in Britain but not for Australians? That’s the question being asked by the Australian Privacy Foundation – the nation’s independent privacy advocate. For more than 30 years the Foundation has been fighting for a respectful privacy regime. Just because something is politically advantageous, administratively convenient or… Read More
Federal Court Decision Guts the Privacy Act
The judgment of the Federal Court of Australia, in Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corporation Pty Ltd, that key metadata is not “personal information” is “disastrous for ordinary Australians and misunderstands how a digital footprint identifies person”, the Australian Privacy Foundation said today.
This decision will severely impair the Privacy Commissioner in regulating privacy on line. Read More
Decision in Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corporation to be handed down tomorrow morning
The Full Bench of the Federal Court of Australia will hand down its judgment tomorrow in the decision Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corporation Pty Ltd
The details are as follows:
Date: 19 January 2017.
Venue: Court 8C (Level 8) Commonwealth Law Courts, 305 William Street, Melbourne, 3000
Time: 9 am Read More