Thanks to FSU, 600 digital activists they supported & @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social from the @jacquilambie.bsky.social network, @information-age.bsky.social could quickly debunk the Gov's bogus "AI bots send FOI" claim, as Archie Milligan reports. When we work together, can protect our right to know!

I apologise for my 2023 story on Ausenco deploying Arctic Wolf's MDR platform, Cyber Daily's follow-up shows I wrote a fluff piece. I don't rely on what vendor's press releases say they're doing right anymore. I research how they can do better.
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6/12🧵#eSafety said concerns that its Meltwater tool profiles critics are false & the docs only contain posts mentioning eSafety. Many orgs’ social media monitoring is innocent PR, but considering its application in #Centrelink & #NDIS the #FOI applicants wanted to check

5/12🧵Sidenote: Although most the applicants were conservative, FSU's opposition to surveillance & censorship has been consistent eg its stance against SLV’s treatment of @jinghuaqian.com @omarsakr.bsky.social & Alison Evans & support for Antoinette Lattouf's unfair dismissal case

7/7 🧵 Some of these biometric identification capabilities were already enabled over the AI 'Insights' platform that Microsoft deployed in 2021, leaving NSW’s artificial intelligence committee concerned. NSW Police has said Insights can even detect a person’s gait

6/7 🧵Facial recognition will likely return in a system that profiles suspects using additional biometrics like tattoos & scars. NSW Police said late last year that it was still procuring its “Integrated Biometric Platform” first revealed in 2021

5/7 🧵Because NSW Police have not updated the Cognitec facial recognition system since commissioning it in 2011, it is much more biased & less accurate than the updates NIST tests in quarterly reports

4/7 🧵 The 14-year-old Cognitec-based facial recognition system turned off in February when concerns peaked — inc criticism of Cognitec’s demographic bias + the publication of a gov watchdog’s audit warning NSW Police about facial recognition tech’s risks

3/7 🧵 And note that these stats don’t include its use in real time, which NSW Police has enabled by adding 'persons of interest' to the watchlists of third party orgs that run facial recognition over live streams. Source: NSW Ombudsman’s Compendium of ADM systems

2/7 🧵Firstly, credit to NSW MPs Abigail Boyd & Sue Higginson who’ve used questions on notice (QoN) to get key stats & details on facial recognition tech — inc its rapid expansion

I ❤️ Melbourne

Peter Dutton’s time in QLD Police is SO private RTI decisions neither confirm nor deny these docs, but if I want a job any potential employer can call all my past employers; WE/voters are his BOSS; information asymmetry dictates every moment of our degrading lives
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