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ARTICLE · 01 MARCH 2023

Clear laws needed for use of facial recognition technology (FRT)

The increasing use of FRT by businesses, police and security services needs new laws to protect the right to privacy.

AustraliaCriminal Law

Police and security services are making ever more use of facial recognition technology, which can identify individuals via CCTV by scanning an individual's face and matching it to images held in a database.

No dedicated laws in Australia for facial recognition technology

Facial recognition technology (FRT) can be useful, but Australia does not have clear and dedicated laws regarding the use of this technology.

Privacy laws currently do not prevent people's faces being scanned and that biometric data being checked against a database, even when the person is doing something like shopping, sitting in a hotel having a beer or protesting in a demonstration.

Application of facial recognition technology

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