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Bunnings Australia wins legal fight to use AI facial recognition in stores (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 7 hours ago by freedickpics@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Australia's Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind determined in 2024 that Bunnings breached privacy laws by scanning hundreds of thousands of customers' faces without their proper consent.

A review of that decision by the Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia has now found the opposite

The retailer did not break the law by scanning customers' identities, but should improve its privacy policy and notify customers of the use of AI-based facial recognition technology, the ruling said

Petty typical stuff by this point. The privacy-invading company wins, pissweak government makes a few privacy "recommendations" but stops short of enforcing anything

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 24 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Fuck. Cunts. Shit's going to be everywhere tomorrow. (I rarely profane as much, but this)

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 hours ago

Exactly. Kmart did a similar trial a while back. This ruling will just open the floodgates for every company to roll out AI-powered facial recognition cameras everywhere