Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has announced facial recognition could be banned in Brisbane following a presentation regarding the technology at this year’s Asian Pacfic Cities Summit.
The speech delivered by Former Amazon chief scientist Andreas Weigend has sparked the conversation about the technology in Brisbane, where the scientist discussed the technology’s capabilities to not only identify faces, but detect emotion in citizens.
Cr Schrinner, a sceptic of the widespread application of the technology in Brisbane says while it could be useful in situations like airports, in order to protect privacy it should be excluded from public places like the Queen Street Mall.