Bunnings Australia wins legal fight to use AI facial recognition in stores

submitted by freedickpics to privacy 34 points | 8 comments https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/bunnings-wins-ai-facial-recognition-tech-fight/106309308 > Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind determined in 2024 that Bunnings breached privacy laws by scanning hundreds of thousands of customers’ faces without their proper consent. > A review of that decision by the Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia has now found the opposite > The retailer did not break the law by scanning customers’ identities, but should improve its privacy policy and notify customers of the use of AI-based facial recognition technology, the ruling said Petty typical stuff by this point. The privacy-invading company wins, pissweak government makes a few privacy “recommendations” but stops short of enforcing anything