faceprints

• Crackdown on facial recognition on social media

  4th Aug 2022

  Last year ‘Facebook shut down its face recognition system and deleted faceprints of more than one billion people after protests about privacy and misuse’ but ‘a commercial company that takes people’s personal data without permission from the internet and links it through such facial recognition technology for profit is in breach of privacy under Australian law,’ writes Anneka Frayne.