Biometric legislation increasingly out of date, says Australia’s new privacy commissioner

Rapid changes in biometric technology are a challenge to regulators, while legislative approaches to applications such as keystroke and eye tracking are increasingly out of date, according to Australia’s new national privacy commissioner, Carly Kind.

Kind, a human rights lawyer and founder of UK privacy organization the Ada Lovelace Institute, was named the country’s new Privacy Commissioner last week. Kind is expected to take her place in February alongside Elizabeth Tydd, who has been appointed as the new Freedom …

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