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When consumers provide consent for recording their facial data, they must fully know what they’re consenting to.
You can wear a mask, pull up a hood, avoid looking at a camera – but you cannot easily change how you walk.
New US requirements for visa-free travel could involve sharing large amounts of biometric and law enforcement data, prompting concerns about privacy.
Families, chiefs or document brokers remain crucial to help people get a legal identity.
Digital identification is supposed to provide identity to all people. But sometimes it blocks access to essential services.
Despite the ruling against Bunnings, Australian businesses can continue to collect your biometric information without your explicit consent by simply putting up signs.
Automated facial recognition is becoming widespread in Australia. The technology has already been used by retail outlets, sport stadiums and casinos around the country. And in November, the Australian…
Our facial information is sensitive – yet companies and individuals can collect, sell and manipulate it without our consent. Australian law must change to protect us all.
Your car’s safety technology takes you into account. But a lot of that technology helps car companies collect data about you. Researchers are working on closing the gap between safety and privacy.
Capturing biometric data helps UN agencies and other groups avoid the risk of fraud and increase efficiency. But the practice is complicated and has created security risks for vulnerable groups.
Biometric data can be used in schools to track everything from attendance to exam behaviour and what students buy from the canteen.
Federal and state governments are turning to a facial recognition company to ensure that people accessing services are who they say they are. The move promises to cut down on fraud, but at what cost?
The potential failure of the US military to protect information that can identify Afghan citizens raises questions about whether and how biometric data should be collected in war zones.
The U.S. military collected biometric data on Afghan civilians. The information may have fallen into the hands of the Taliban, highlighting why collecting the data is too risky in the first place.
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Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, Director, Digital Democracy Lab, William & Mary
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