Tag: Facial Verification Service

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DTA warns face matching law could spook digital ID

Proposed laws that would allow authorities to use the federal government’s identity services to conduct one-to-many matches in very limited circumstances could be detrimental to the uptake of digital...

Facial recognition, digital ID laws could arrive in parallel

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Controversial facial recognition laws previously rejected by Parliament’s intelligence and security committee could be reintroduced in “parallel” with the Albanese government’s new digital identity legislation. As the timeline for...

Govt mulls facial recognition bill reheat

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
As the government considers reviving the controversial facial recognition legislation needed to expand an identity matching scheme, Home Affairs has awarded a $37 million contract to Fujitsu to manage...

Feds’ massive new photo ID plan

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Attorney General’s Department plans to add as many as 12 million passport photographs to its Face Verification Service this year – one issue prompting calls for a Biometric...