Our research project was featured on the 27th June 2022 broadcast of 'Life Matters' on ABC Radio National. Mark Andrejevic spoke with presenter Hillary Harper about the pros and cons of the reported implementation of facial recognition and facial analysis technologies in Australian retail settings such as Bunnings, K-Mark and Good Guys. Mark was joined... Continue Reading →
FRT radio interview on RN ‘Future Tense’
Our research project was a feature on the 28th May 2022 episode of 'Future Tense' on ABC Radio Nation. Neil Selwyn spoke with presenter Antony Funnell about the pros and cons of the ongoing emergence of facial recognition and facial analysis technologies into Australian society. We are featured briefly at the start of the episode,... Continue Reading →
Überwachtes Leben (German radio documentary 23.05.22)
Neil Selwyn was a featured expert guest on a German radio documentary 'Überwachtes Leben' (Monitored Life) on SWR2 (broadcast 23.05.22). Neil talks about our project's investigation of online exam proctoring during the pandemic, as well as the general creep of facial recognition into schools. The program is in German - Neil is speaking just after... Continue Reading →
paper accepted for AOIR 2021
We are very pleased to have a paper accepted for the 2021 AOIR conference in October. The paper arises from our ongoing ethnographic work about FRT and biometrics industry trade shows and is titled: "‘Ethical biometrics’ and the face of the child: the surveillance of children within facial recognition industry discourse". In this paper we... Continue Reading →