Australian major retailers Bunnings and Kmart have become the subject of an investigation over their use of facial recognition technology in stores. On Tuesday, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) launched a probe into the companies’ “personal information handling practices.” The watchdog has also commenced a preliminary inquiry with The Good Guys, although…

China recently banned Chinese users from accessing the Flightradar24 website—a global-sharing network of flight tracking— for fear that “important aviation data” might be transferred to foreign countries and that some sort of “espionage acts” would divulge military aircrafts’ movements and endanger national security, according to state-owned CCTV. On Oct. 31, CCTV aired a program about…

Commentary In a previous piece, I asked if the Biden administration was actually enabling the Chinese regime. The answer, I concluded, was a rather resounding yes. The administration should be doing everything in its power to distance itself from a capricious, dangerous regime. Instead, it’s busy buying surveillance equipment from the enemy. What a Difference a Year…

A group of civil society bodies has called on the government to ban facial recognition cameras, while accusing police and the Home Office of bypassing Parliament over guidance for the use of the technology. Thirty-one organisations including Amnesty International, Liberty, and Privacy International have posted an open letter alleging guidance allowing police, local councils, and…