Last week
The New York Times released an article focussed on facial
recognition technology. The piece examined Clearview AI, a company which
whilst being virtually unknown, is, according to the New York
Times, already being used by over 600 law enforcement agencies
internationally. The company is reported to have already scraped
over 3 billion images from across the internet.
A draft Bill, set to deal with the expected influx of facial
recognition software, has now been presented here in Australia.
The Identity-Matching Services Bill 2019 seeks to
create broad rights to enable mass government surveillance through
the use of facial recognition technology.
The still-relatively-new facial recognition technology used by
Clearview AI allows government authorities to upload a photograph
of a human target, in order for Clearview AI to match the
target's face to the software's extensive database of
public images. The software then provides users with links to
