Bunnings Found to Breach Customer Privacy With Widespread Use of Facial Recognition Tech

Published on November 19, 2024

A two-year investigation has led Australia’s privacy commissioner to issue a landmark finding against the country’s largest hardware retailer, Bunnings, for using facial recognition technology in 387 stores without informing customers. “Individuals who entered the relevant Bunnings stores at the time would not have been aware that facial recognition technology was in use and especially that their sensitive information was being collected, even if briefly,” Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind said. The commissioner found Bunnings interfered with the privacy of hundreds of thousands of customers across 63 of its New South Wales and Victoria stores between Nov. 6, 2018 and Nov. 30, 2021. The hardware giant has been issued an ultimatum to destroy the information it has collected....

Continue reading on website
Other news

Delay of CSIS Warrant on Ontario Politician a Flashpoint in Final Submissions to Hogue Commission

November 19, 2024
The federal government says in its final submission to the Foreign Interference Commission that no political interference led to the delay of a surveillance warrant on an Ontario politician, while other participants say there is no other possible explanation.Final submissions from parties involved in the public inquiry were made on Nov. 18, and several of them spent time discussing a 2021 warrant

Boeing to Lay Off Over 2,500 Workers in US as Part of Sweeping Cuts

November 19, 2024
Boeing will lay off more than 2,500 workers in the states of Washington, Oregon, South Carolina, and Missouri, according to federally required filings posted on Monday and a union official, as part of the debt-heavy planemaker’s plan to cut 17,000 jobs, or 10 percent of its global workforce.Nearly 2,200 layoff notices went to workers in Washington and another 220 in South Carolina, the two states