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Australian Identity-Matching Services Bill

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posted on 2020-09-02, 00:00 authored by Jake Goldenfein, Monique Mann
Since 2017, the Australian federal government has pushed for political and legal changes to make facial recognition technology more widely available to civil and policing agencies. These efforts, part of a long-term and continuing expansion of surveillance powers by the Australian federal government, have culminated in a new biometric identity-information system. Federal authorities have argued that facial recognition technology is useful for law enforcement and preventing identity fraud, but to achieve those benefits, they have combined civil and criminal, as well as state and federal, identity systems into a powerful intelligence apparatus controlled by a single government department: the Australian Department of Home Affairs.

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Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Open Questions

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44 - 51

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AI Now Institute

Place of publication

New York

Language

eng

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This is an invited contribution of an Australian case study / country report to an internationally leading research organisation.

Publication classification

A6 Research report/technical paper

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