ClubsNSW suggests use of facial recognition could go beyond identifying problem gamblers
by Michael McGowan from World news | The Guardian on (#65655)
Exclusive: Lobby group links technology to identification of people barred from venues for disorderly behaviour
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People kicked out of New South Wales pubs for being too drunk could be tracked via facial recognition technology if new laws introduced to parliament last week are not changed, with the powerful gambling lobby refusing to rule out expanding the use of the controversial tool.
A week after ClubsNSW announced it would roll out facial recognition technology to pubs and clubs across the state as a harm minimisation tool that could only be used to enforce self exclusion" by gamblers, it now concedes its use will be more widespread.
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