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Auror crime-reporting software didn't need privacy assessment, Australian police chief says

By James Panichi ( May 25, 2023, 08:59 GMT | Insight) -- Australia’s federal police have again come under pressure for their use of crime-reporting software, with the force’s top brass today conceding that they hadn’t carried out a privacy-impact assessment before using technology provided by New Zealand company Auror. The Australian Federal Police’s Neil Gaughan told a parliamentary hearing that a privacy-impact assessment wasn’t required because the images collected by the Auror software were comparable to those collected by surveillance cameras. In 2021, the police force was found to have breached privacy laws by agreeing to trial the facial-recognition technology of US-based company Clearview AI.Australia’s federal police have again come under pressure for their use of crime-reporting software, with the force’s top brass today conceding that they hadn’t carried out a privacy-impact assessment before using technology provided by New Zealand company Auror....

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