{"id":253105,"date":"2021-07-27T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/?p=20553"},"modified":"2021-07-27T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T08:30:36","slug":"facial-recognition-and-the-nsw-protest-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/27\/facial-recognition-and-the-nsw-protest-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"Facial recognition and the NSW protest crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"
NSW Police have not ruled <\/strong>out its use of facial recognition technology to identify thousands of protestors from a Sydney anti-lockdown rally on Saturday, despite calls from experts to pause its use. But it won’t confirm the use of the technology either.<\/p>\n Its potential use at a public protest has raised alarm among experts, who say the police need to be more transparent in how they deploy the controversial technology, which remains largely unregulated in Australia.<\/p>\n Following the protests in Sydney\u2019s CBD on Saturday, police established a taskforce to identify individuals at the rally. At least 22 detectives have been tasked with identifying the crowd of thousands which participated in the event in defiance of public health orders.<\/p>\n Police Minister David Elliot said the taskforce would \u201cforensically investigate all CCTV and social media footage collected over the course of the afternoon\u2019s protest\u201d.<\/p>\n