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Australian retailers deploy facial recognition as privacy laws stall

Australia’s privacy watchdog will likely investigate Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys after a consumer group uncovered the retailers’ use of facial recognition technology on customers. It comes after...

Privacy warnings won’t stop ABC sharing user data

13 January 2022 | by Joseph Brookes

The ABC will require users of its iview streaming service to log-in to continue watching this year, and will share their data with tech giants by default, despite repeated...

Privacy breach: 7-Eleven secretly scanned customer faces

15 October 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

7-Eleven violated its customers’ privacy by secretly collecting their facial images at 700 stores over the last year for demographic profiling and data verification, the regulator has determined after...

Experts urge ABC to reverse ‘risky’ log-in requirement

31 May 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

Privacy and technology experts have written to ABC management, urging them to reconsider the decision to require iview users to log in to use the video streaming service, saying...

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Australian retailers deploy facial recognition as privacy laws stall

Privacy breach: 7-Eleven secretly scanned customer faces

Experts urge ABC to reverse ‘risky’ log-in requirement

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