{"id":777012097,"date":"2023-12-22T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012097"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:27:34","slug":"crown-resorts-bars-terrorist-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-resorts-bars-terrorist-for-life","title":{"rendered":"Crown Resorts bars terrorist for life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The casino operator will use facial recognition technology to stop Abdul Benbrika from entering venues.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- <strong>Crown Resorts<\/strong> has imposed a life ban on convicted terrorist <strong>Abdul Nacer Benbrika<\/strong>. The casino operator will use facial recognition technology to stop Benbrika from entering its venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Victorian Supreme Court freed Benbrika on Tuesday after <strong>almost two decades in jail<\/strong>, with a number of restrictions on his movement in the community over the next 12 months, including an order to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet. Benbrika was imprisoned for plots to commit terror attacks at a number of high-profile events in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benbrika will also be barred from attending the Boxing Day Test match and is to be banned for life from the <strong>Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)<\/strong>. A witness at Benbrika&#8217;s 2008 trial gave evidence that he had spoken about carrying out a terror attack at the MCG during the AFL Grand Final and spoke of Crown Casino as another possible target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The casino operator will use facial recognition technology to stop Abdul Benbrika from entering venues.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":25558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Crown Resorts has issued a lifetime ban against convicted terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika, leveraging facial recognition technology to enforce this exclusion from its venues. This action follows Benbrika's release from prison and prior intelligence suggesting Crown Casino as a potential target for terror attacks. The measure underscores the operator's commitment to enhanced security protocols.","focusai_entities":"Crown Resorts, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, Victorian Supreme Court, Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG)","focusai_location":"Australia, Melbourne","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), tech_data (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Facial Recognition Efficacy","query":"What are the specific technical and operational challenges associated with deploying facial recognition technology for real-time exclusion enforcement in high-traffic casino environments, and how does Crown Resorts ensure its efficacy and data integrity?"},{"label":"Regulatory Oversight","query":"How do current Australian regulatory compliance frameworks for gaming operators address the implementation of advanced surveillance technologies like facial recognition, particularly concerning data privacy and the legal basis for permanent exclusion?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[14657],"class_list":["post-777012097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-crown-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777012097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012114,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012097\/revisions\/777012114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}