The children's identities were previously considered cold cases — some decades old — with not enough distinguishable clues in the online abuse material seized by authorities to identify them.
Operation Renewed Hope, run by Homeland Security Investigations Cyber Crimes Centre's Child Exploitation Investigations Unit out of the United States, finished earlier this month.But the technology used to identify hundreds fo victims is banned here, after it was found to breach the Australian Privacy Act.The operation used the US-based company Clearview AI's facial recognition technology as well as other victim identification techniques.
The privacy commissioner ordered the company to cease collecting and destroy existing data and images from Australia. Recently the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal upheld an earlier decision by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in 2021 that the company had breached the Privacy Act by collecting images from Australian servers for use.Law enforcement agencies in the United States are able to use the technology.
"It would have been nice to see the abuse identified earlier on to prevent the abuse from continuing," he said. Griffith University's senior lecturer in cyber security, David Tuffley, said scraping videos and images from the web was a breach of the privacy act."Australian law enforcement, both at the federal and state level, are pretty keen to make use of these latest tools, because one of the problems with cyber crime is that bad guys are constantly using the latest things.QUT chair in digital economy Professor Marek Kowalkiewicz said there was a risk of people being wrongly identified.
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