Biometrics
Alternative labels
Biometric person authentication
Facial recognition
Report
No blood – no job: Australia’s privacy laws and workers’ rights
Organisations in Australia are using blood analysis as a means of screening future employees for ‘health risks’ that they allege may impact on their performance of work. This report examines the need for new provisions within either or both privacy or workplace relations laws that set out the rights of workers to protect their sensitive...
Report
Australian public attitudes to facial recognition technology
Christopher O’Neill (Deakin University)
While facial recognition technology (FRT) will likely play an increasingly important role in Australia as the technology is deployed in the name of security and convenience, this report reveals a relatively low level of public familiarity with the technology, its uses and the potential issues it raises, highlighting the need for more robust public education...
Submission
ADM+S Submission to The Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society
This submission considers some important and complex questions around the role of social media in Australian society by a large group of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).
Discussion paper
A potential biometrics code of practice: discussion document
The increasing role of biometric technologies in the lives of New Zealanders has led to calls for greater regulation of biometrics. This discussion paper has been released to gather public feedback on any possible regulatory changes.
Report
Advancing child sexual abuse investigations using biometrics and social network analysis
This paper demonstrates how biometric features can be extracted from people in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and examines using social network analysis to reveal important patterns across seized media files.