Why the government's proposed facial recognition database is causing such alarm
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2019
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Moulds, S.
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Since before the 2019 election, the Morrison government has been keen to introduce a new scheme that would allow government agencies, telecos and banks to use facial recognition technology to collect and share images of people across the country. While there are some benefits to such a system - making it easier to identify the victims of natural disasters, for example - it has been heavily criticised by human rights groups as an attempt to introduce mass surveillance to Australia and an egregious breach of individual privacy. The plan hit a roadblock when the government-controlled Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) handed down an extensive report calling for significant changes to the legislation to ensure stronger privacy protections and other safeguards against misuse.
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Copyright 2019 the author. This publication is available under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives licence. |u http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/