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Australia Discontinues Its National Biometric ID Project (gizmodo.com.au)
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission's (ACIC) biometrics project, which adds facial recognition to a national crime database, is being discontinued following reports of delays and budget blowouts. From a report: This announcement comes after the project was suspended earlier this month and NEC Australia staff were escorted out of the building by security on Monday June 4. [...] ACIC contracted the NEC for the $52 million Biometric Identification Services project with the view of replacing the fingerprint identification system that is currently in place. The aim of the project, which was supposed to run until 2021, was to include palm print, foot prints and facial recognition to aid in police investigations. The Australian government stated that it wanted to provide Australians with a single digital identity by 2025.
Oh, I doubt you would have dissuaded the usual spamming retards. (who are probably paid to do so, though appear to not really give a shit about their job)
If anyone works for a internet political advocacy group - the job market is booming - go do something useful with your lives!!!!
Can I preserve my anonymity in this database by using some sort of hosts file? I'd like this protection to be as fast as possible, and I hear some engines offer kernel level speed at protecting systems.
Please, we are way past the point of pretending people want useful lives.
Just look at all the people at the top. Total wastes of good shit.
Ask yourself how does the government control the masses? Big Brother first needs to identify you, then the thought police can take over. Social media are the thought police.
And people think my tinfoil hat is funny...
I like how they were planning to expand their criminal identification database into one single database for identifying all Australians. Descended from criminals, always and forever criminals? Or just the usual misguided idiocy we know so well?
"We" need nothing of the sort. Or maybe you could explain why you would destroy all privacy forever, dear fellow anonymous coward? Whatever for, what real or imagined evil are you so afraid of you would go that far?
And of course, that uniqueness property is assumed, probably contingent on more assumptions you haven't even thought of, and everything can be forged. The "harder" you make the identification, the harder you make it to recover from impersonation. But you cannot make forgery impossible. In other words, your proposal is full of possibly good intentions paving the way to certain dystopian hell.
The privacy horse already bolted.
Vizzini: Yes, Australia. And you must have suspected I would have known the powder's origin, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
How often are footprints found at a crime scene?
I suspect most people (including criminals) wear shoes (or sandals, since Australia has so many beaches).
How are we supposed to implement mass genocide if we cant have everyone's genetic markers associated with inescapable identification in the mass surveillance system? Now how are we supposed to know who really is and isnt an inferior race!
Yep, but if you don't put on sunscreen, you'll get cancer.
Islam gives you cancer.
I used to think of Australia as a place I might like to live one day, until I learned of all the draconian crap going on there. My outlook of that country just got a little brighter.
A win for privacy-loving Australians!
Mandatory govt tracking is against human rights.
Voluntary govt tracking is different, like a passport. That is completely voluntary.
Uh, identical twins?
Probably a good thing given the fact that Hitler started out as one of them.
"according to new research, though identical twins share very similar genes, identical they are not."
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/health/11real.html
https://www.verywellfamily.com/identical-twins-and-dna-2447117
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27411-police-can-now-tell-identical-twins-apart-just-melt-their-dna/
If you're going to use a Kraft-owned world wide trademark you could at least spell it correctly.
When tourists travel to Australian, they don't realize the country is already a zoo.
DNA changes over your lifetime. How will you deal with that?
Vegemite is now actually owned by Bega. What used to be 'Kraft Peanut Butter' is now also Bega.