Tag: facial recognition app

Facial Recognition Apps for Home Quarantine a ‘Privacy Disaster’: Report

A new report from the left-leaning Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology has warned state-level governments to avoid crossing into “new frontiers” of citizen surveillance following the increasing adoption of home quarantine apps in the country. Currently, South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria are trialling such apps, which use geolocation and facial recognition technology…


Another Australian State Launches Home Quarantine App With Facial Recognition, Geolocation Tech

Victoria is the latest Australian state to launch a home quarantine trial using a facial recognition and geolocation app. Health Minister Martin Foley called on Victorians 18-years and over and currently isolating at home to volunteer to participate in the trial that will run for four weeks. The trial is seen as an alternative choice to…