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FRT was logical choice for gang-targeted retailer, Bunnings witness tells Australian court

By James Panichi ( October 24, 2025, 07:34 GMT | Insight) -- Hardware giant Bunnings’ campaign to stop organized gangs of shoplifters from making away with valuable tools meant it had no option other than to embrace facial-recognition technology to help identify repeat offenders, an Australian court heard on Friday. In the third day of hearings in the landmark privacy challenge, a security expert told the Administrative Review Tribunal that the cost of criminal attacks by recidivist thieves in 2018 prompted Bunnings to do “what most retailers would have done — consider FRT as an option.”Australian hardware giant Bunnings’ campaign to stop organized gangs of shoplifters from making away with valuable tools meant it had no option other than to embrace facial-recognition technology, or FRT, to help identify repeat offenders, a court heard on Friday....

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