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In this episode, Professor Ed Santow,  speaks to Dr Lauren Sanders about the regulation of facial recognition technology in Australian and the UTS Facial Recognition Model Law Project, that will propose a way to rectify the current gaps in regulation of this technology in Australia that makes it prone to misuse.

Edward Santow is Industry Professor - Responsible Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Ed leads UTS's new initiative on building Australia's capability on ethical artificial intelligence. From 2016-2021, Ed was Australia's Human Rights Commissioner; he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Human Rights and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and serves on a number of boards and committees. In 2009, Ed was presented with an Australian Leadership Award, and in 2017, he was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Ed previously served as chief executive of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and was a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Law School, a research director at the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and a solicitor in private practice.

Additional resources:

• Australian Human Rights Commission - Human Rights and Technology Report, Chapter 9: Biometric surveillance, facial recognition and privacy, published 2021 
• Kate Crawford - The Atlas of AI, published 2021
• The Biometrics Institute
• Shoshanna Zuboff  - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, published 2019
• Virginia Eubanks - Automating Inequality, published 2018
• OAIC - Clearview AI breached Australians' privacy,  3 November 2021
• OAIC - OIAC Finds Against 7-eleven over Facial Recognition, 14 October 2021