Privacy
Major retailers using facial recognition technology on unsuspecting customers: Choice
It’s been revealed Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys have been creating “face prints” of their customers, including children, without their knowledge.
- by Amelia McGuire
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icare investigation
Icare sends private details of 193,000 workers to wrong employers
Icare has contacted affected workers to apologise after information about their claims was shared due to “human error.”
- by Lucy Cormack
Snapchat profit warning heralds hard times for digital media
Privacy changes have made ads less effective or more costly while a forecast economic slump is weighing on brands’ spending.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Is artificial intelligence a friend or foe? Or is that a question for Siri?
University of NSW Professor Toby Walsh reveals the good, bad and the ugly side of artificial intelligence.
- by Greg Callaghan
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Opinion
A five-star room with a loo, please, but must it be in the same room
When my partner and I booked our weekend away, I didn’t bank on it being quite so intimate.
- by Kerri Sackville
Murphy’s law enforcer: Why police are watching people in bottle shop car park
Privacy experts and civil libertarians have raised concerns about publicly funded mobile surveillance units being used regularly outside a private business.
- by David Estcourt
Opinion
Satire
Smooth selling: one day in the life of a digitally compliant shopper
Retail surveillance may be making me paranoid. That doesn’t mean the bastards aren’t out to get me.
- by Mark Mordue
Opinion
Digital transformation
Online privacy is a farce. Click here to agree
So often we click “I agree” to digital companies’ privacy agreements, but it would take us an hour and 13 minutes a day to read the fine print. There is a better way.
- by Andrew Charlton
Location tracking company shares crash as stalking fears weigh on sector
Life360 lost 30 per cent of its value on the ASX after costs spiked and its CEO flagged privacy concerns about a competing Apple product.
- by Nick Bonyhady
‘Critical incident’: NSW opposition calls for new review of QR code data leak
Labor says the NSW government breached its relationship with the community and needs to explain why the Premier wasn’t informed of the significant data breach.
- by Jonathan Kearsley and Clair Weaver
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Information security
Sensitive business addresses among 500,000 published in COVID data breach
Locations of hundreds of thousands of businesses registered for NSW’s COVID-19 QR codes were discovered on a government data website in September.
- by Jonathan Kearsley and Clair Weaver