BONUS: Exposing the dark side of facial recognition technology

Would you be happy having your face not just surveilled, but scanned every time you walked into the supermarket?   It's no longer a hypothetical.   Coles and Woolworths have both now admitted to trialling facial recognition technology, while Bunnings has won the right to scan customers' faces in limited circumstances - a shift privacy experts warn could creep from spotting known troublemakers to tracking every shopper who walks through the door.  So what do we know about facial recognition technology and just how invasive can it really be?  To make sense of it, we're rewinding a few years to one of the most alarming case studies involving facial recognition tech company – CLEARVIEW AI.   In this bonus episode of The Briefing, we're revisiting an episode of Secrets We Keep: Uncovered by investigative journalist Joey Watson.  When it became known that the shadowy facial recognition company had created a massive database, capable of identifying almost anyone, anywhere, reporters around the globe picked up the trail - working to uncover how this start-up could reshape privacy and policing internationally.  Here in Australia, tech reporter Cam Wilson spent years digging through the Australian Federal Police's own files - and what he found in them was deeply disturbing.  Read Cam Wilson's investigations here:  ‘World's most controversial company’ Clearview AI still being used to solve Australian police cases  Clearview AI is still collecting photos of Australians for its facial recognition database  Follow The Briefing: TikTok: @thebriefingpod Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast YouTube: @TheBriefingPodcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.