[LINK] Facial recognition system rollout was too rushed, Queensland police report reveals - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[JLWhitaker]

Remember the Commonwealth Games a few years ago? Remember the big push 
in Qld to implement facial recognition?

Turns out it was a bust. And not only that, they ended up using it for 
regular policing. As it says in the article - scope creep. That didn't 
take long, did it?

Thank goodness there is an Information Commissioner up there who thinks 
these reports are important for the public to understand how underhanded 
some govt agencies actually are and required Queensland Police to 
release it. Interestingly, the Privacy Commissioner didn't even get a 
copy of the report and it took the ABC release for them to even find out 
about it!

That raises a concept for any intrusive legislation like this: ALL new 
surveillance technology implementations must have - an evaluation 
program that will be done by an independent body that will be publicly 
released. That last part probably needs some room to not release 
security damaging aspects of the report, but at least the public must be 
made aware of how these systems actually work. I doubt even the 
legislators who passed the legislation are even aware how bad this one 
stinks.

We tend to concentrate at PIAs at the front end of the process, but, as 
far as I am aware, have not demanded completion of the implementation 
circle of events, an evaluation of what actually happened and happens 
once they are implemented. It's probably too much to ask for an end of 
life plan for these things, including social and environmental impacts, 
things like data destruction.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-06/australias-biggest-facial-recognition-roll-out-rushed/11077350

Jan

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