Retail surveillance company Auror is under investigation by Australia’s privacy watchdog following a Crikey report into the Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) use of its software.
The Australian Information Commissioner launched an investigation into the New Zealand-based company on February 2 this year, as first reported by regulatory and privacy publication MLex.
Auror sells itself as helping “connect people and organisations with timely intel to proactively reduce the impacts of crime in retail stores” by pulling together facial recognition scans, license plate scanners, self-checkout AI and other data from retailers that they can share with other retailers and police.
Last year, Crikey revealed internal
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