Three more major companies are being referred to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner over their use of facial recognition technology in stores.
Australia’s leading consumer advocacy group has raised serious concerns about major retailers using facial recognition technology to record customer faceprints.
This is the latest revelation for the industry.
CHOICE is referring Kmart, Bunnings and The Good Guys to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to investigate potential breaches of the Privacy Act over their use of the technology.… Read the rest
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Norway to Track All Supermarket Purchases
Statistics Norway wants to receive several million daily receipts from food stores, signalling a new era in state data collection. Privacy advocates and the supermarkets themselves are unhappy.
People living in Norway are used to big government. But the latest news coming out of Oslo is a surprising new step down the road of data collection that not everyone is happy with.… Read the rest
Just Because You’re Paranoid: ACLU Doc Dump Reveals Cops Disturbingly Routine Surveillance
Kalifornia Kops Surveillance Secrets Revealed: ACLU Exposes Routine Police Harassment And Observation
So you say that, as an American citizen and/or a freedom-loving person you are apprehensive about how much of our data is being scooped up by Big Brother? Especially since the high water mark of the Snowden revelations has rolled back leaving the law virtually unchanged and the same bent law enforcement types running things?… Read the rest