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A facial recognition technology trial is underway in Queensland, alarming privacy advocates who fear such developments could lead to bigger databanks of stored personal information.
The Toowoomba Regional Council has begun trialling the software called iOmniscient on behalf of the Brisbane, Gold Coast and other councils.
iOmniscient works by analysing images recorded by existing CCTV cameras.
A rollout of similar software has been supported by the Federal Government for passport processing in Australia, and the Northern Territory police are already using something similar.
Monique Mann, a law lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology and member of the Australian Privacy Foundation, said the Toowoomba Council's decision was alarming.
She said that facial technology introduction...