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Little-known company Auror provides a ‘crime intelligence’ product used in stores such as Bunnings and Coles. Privacy experts have concerns.
If you’ve bought groceries, filled your car with petrol or shopped at a major Australian retailer recently, chances are you’ve probably been surveilled by a company using Auror.
Auror is a little-known “crime intelligence platform” used in thousands of stores across Australia, including Coles and Woolworths.
Promising to help combat retail crime, Auror users share information about suspects with each other and police, alert each other when people or cars enter their stores, and even use analytics to “prevent crime before it happens”. The company works closely with Australian police forces, who have access to the data collected by Auror’s users on millions of Australians.
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Associate Editor @cameronwilson
Cam Wilson is Crikey’s associate editor. He previously worked as a reporter at the ABC, BuzzFeed, Business Insider and Gizmodo. He primarily covers internet culture and tech in Australia.
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