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.
History
Pagination
44-51
Language
eng
Research statement
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
Publisher
AI Now Institute
Place of publication
New York
Source
Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Open Questions