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Retail giant Kmart, Australia’s confidentiality commissioner, scanning the faces of the shoppers by violating the confidentiality of the Australians.
Between June 2020 and July 2022, KMART established 28 stores to fight the refund fraud.
Every customer entering – not only suspect scammers – biometric data were caught.
The Privacy Commissioner violated the privacy of customers by scanning KMART’s faces without consenting.Credit: Bloomberg
Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind said that after a three -year investigation, the application found that the application was “disproportionate intervention with privacy”.
“I do not think that the Answering (KMART) may have believed that the benefits of the face recognition technology system in addressing the refund fraud on the reimbursement of the refund of the refund of the refund of the refund of the refund of the reimbursement of the system,” he said.
“[It was] Also at a minimum level [Kmart’s] Annual income of $ 9.2 billion in 2020 financially. “
Kmart argued that he had the right to use technology under the exemption of a Privacy Law to combat illegal activities, but he refused to end the defense that ended the gathering of biometric information from thousands of innocent customers.
For a comment, KMART was contacted. The company collaborated with the investigation and stopped running the system in July 2022.
KMART has been ordered not to repeat the application in the future, and within 30 days, he will have to publish a statement that explains the face recognition technology and the finder’s finding against him.
This regulator, following a similar finding against Bunnings last year, after a decision examined by the Administrative Investigation Court, the regulatory retail process in the process of the second time against the recognition.
