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(Shutterstock)Microsoft Provides Australian State Police with Facial Recognition Services For SurveillanceMicrosoft has announced it will provide the Australian New South Wales (NSW) Police force with its facial recognition technology to speed up the state’s surveillance footage analysis. The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) released its 2021 Human Rights and Technology Final Report last week, recommending the government ban facial recognition and other biometric technology until federal and state governments introduced regulatory legislation. “Australian law should provide stronger, clearer and more targeted human rights protections regarding the development and use of biometric technologies, including facial recognition,” the report stated. “Until these protections are in place, the Commission recommends a moratorium on the use of biometric technologies, including facial recognition, in high-risk areas.”CCTV cameras on a concrete wall. “Several major tech companies recognised the danger of facial recognition technology and withdrew the sales of their technology to law enforcement in 2020—Microsoft being one of them,” Floreani told The Epoch Times.