Should Australia introduce mass facial recognition surveillance? - Web links, documents and video clips

On March 22, 2020, IFSEC Global published a report titled 'Can CCTV help contain the Coronavirus?' which examined the use of facial recognition technology around the world in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus.
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On March 13, 2020, Forbes published an article by Bernard Marr author of Artificial Intelligence in Practice: How 50 Companies Used AI and Machine Learning To Solve Problems. The article is titled 'Coronavirus: How Artificial Intelligence, Data Science And Technology Is Used To Fight The Pandemic'
It presents some of the ways in which technology is being used around the world to combat the coronavirus.
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On March 9, 2020, The Hill published a comment by Adonis Hoffman titled 'Facial recognition could stop terrorists before they act' which argues for the benefits of this technology.
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On February 22, 2020, Gizmodo published an article titled 'Moscow Using Facial Recognition to Enforce Coronavirus Quarantine Of 2,500 Travellers From China' The item explains the use of this technology to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Russia.
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On February 17, 2020, Biometric Update,com published a report titled 'Advancing facial technology to fight identity fraud through liveness detection' which details the manner in which increasingly sophisticated facial recognition technology is being used to protect against identity theft.
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On February 14, 2020, the ABC published an RMIT/ABC Fact Check titled 'Is facial recognition technology worse at identifying darker-skinned faces than lighter ones?'
The fact check concluded that a number of studies have demonstrated significant biases in the systems most commonly in use.
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On January 27, 2020, The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation published an article titled 'The Critics Were Wrong: NIST Data Shows the Best Facial Recognition Algorithms Are Neither Racist nor Sexist'
The article explains that facial recognition technology is no longer prone to the biases that once distorted its results.
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On January 19, 2020, the Sydney Morning Herald published a report titled 'Australian police using face recognition software as privacy experts issue warning'
The article presents the way in which facial recognition technology is currently being deployed by police forces in Australia and the concerns of some privacy advocates.
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On December 27, 2019, Sky News carried a report titled 'Govt urged to increase facial scans to counter increasing threats of terrorism'
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On December 26, 2019, the Chicago Tribune reprinted from The New York Times an article titled 'Many facial-recognition systems are biased, says U.S. study' which explains the ethnically- and gender-based biases inherent in most facial recognition technology.
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On November 1, 2019, The Saturday Paper published a report by Mike Seccombe outlining the concerns of privacy experts regarding the Morrison government's proposed changes to the law around the use of facial recognition technology. The article is titled 'Dutton's plan for a surveillance state'
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On October 31, 2019, the Financial Review published an analysis titled '"Mass surveillance"? The facial recognition bill explained' which outlines a range of concerns that have been raised regarding the proposed legislation governing the use of facial recognition technology.
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On October 25, 2019, The Conversation published an article by Sarah Moulds, lecturer of law at the University of South Australia, titled 'Why the government's proposed facial recognition database is causing such alarm' which examines the privacy and administrative issues raised by the proposed database.
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On October 2, 2019, the Law Council of Australia made a submission titled 'Review of the Identity-Matching Services Bill 2019 and the Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019' which outlines in detail a number of the shortcomings of the proposed legislation.
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On September 29, 2019, The Guardian published an article titled 'Plan for massive facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns' which outlines some of the criticisms made regarding the proposed expansion of Australia's use of facial recognition technology.
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On July 26, 2019, Sydney Criminal Lawyers published on their website a comment titled 'Australia's Future Is Nationwide Facial Recognition Surveillance' which criticises the legal and human rights implications of the proposed facial recognition technology legislation.
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On May 11, 2019, NBC News published an article presenting the manner in which facial recognition technology is becoming common practice among United States police. The article is titled 'How facial recognition became a routine policing tool in America'
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On May 3, 2018, the Australian Human Rights Commission published its arguments against Identity-matching Services Bill and the Passports Amendment Bill. The full text can be accessed at

On July 27, 2017, Computer World published a report titled 'Government awards $22.5m facial recognition contract for airports' which reported on Australia's use of facial recognition technology for security purposes at airports.
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