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Edward Santow

Edward Santow

Edward Santow is a professor at University of Technology Sydney and the former Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner.

Companies and government agencies are increasingly tracking us using facial recognition technology.

Optus hackers may have your data. Next time they could have your face too

Australian companies can legally track how often an employee took a toilet break, and some schools have taken the roll using facial recognition tracking. This biometric data can be a honeypot for cyber-criminals.

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Facial recognition systems.

We must not sleepwalk into mass surveillance

There are many legitimate uses of facial recognition, however left unregulated, the technology also poses a real threat.

  • Edward Santow