This might be paywalled, but Crikey got back a few FOIs and discovered that the Australian Federal Police were (and possibly still are) using Auror - a facial recognition based "retail crime intelligence and loss prevention platform" that Bunnings and Woolworths are using in their stores to identify shoppers. Over 100 AFP staff used Auror and one AFP employee said in the FOI'd emails that Auror is "a great intel gathering system for me. I've found some incidents are placed on Auror but not reported to police". The only problem is, the AFP never did a security review of Auror and never had a formal agreement with Auror over its use.
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