POLICE — G2G NOW
865. Hon
NICK GOIRAN to the minister representing the Minister for Police:
I
refer to the article in The Australian on 10 October 2021 entitled ''Facial
recognition for home quarantine a 'recipe for disaster''',
which asserts that Western Australia is using home quarantine apps with facial
recognition technology.
(1) How many home quarantine apps
are being used in our state?
(2) How many use facial recognition
technology?
(3) Is the
minister aware of the discussion paper released last month by the Australia
Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology that opposes the use of
facial recognition technology for home quarantine and general pandemic
monitoring ''with the technology proving to have systemic weaknesses and
limitations, including errors in identifying female faces and people of colour,
and risks of privacy and ethical abuses''?
(4) Which of the discussion paper's
four recommendations does the government intend to implement?
Hon STEPHEN DAWSON
replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question. The following information has been provided to me
by the Minister for Police. The Western Australia Police Force advises —
(1) The G2G systems are used in Western
Australia.
(2) The G2G Now application uses
facial recognition technology.
(3) No.
(4) Not applicable.