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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.
...because they couldn't figure out how to do facial recognition on all the women wearing Burkas.
Catalog all DNA on file and use it as identification. It's unique and cannot be forged. You can also use familial relationships to identify suspects who are not in the system. It's ideal for this purpose. Require DNA submission for driver's license, voting, and government benefits.
Ok, now that we got that in there, the conversation can move forward on the article topic.
But what of the bats? Has no one cared for them? Will no one? The dingo knows more.
Vegamite!
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.
He's Australian and had a double indemnity insurance policy on towers that were condemned for asbestos that specifically covered acts of terror. No wait, it gets better, he had a doctor's appointment on 9-11-2001 and wasn't in his WTC office.
Nothing suspicious for the crime database here! Bin Laden did it. LOL
Looks like the Islamofacists have mod points!
The AC was right. You can't do facial recognition when their faces are covered.
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?
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.
They should have hired a professional IT closet cleaner for the job. That's Goat C for you.
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.
Probably a good thing given the fact that Hitler started out as one of them.
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.
Vegemite is now actually owned by Bega. What used to be 'Kraft Peanut Butter' is now also Bega.