16 Oct, 2014
Opposition grows in Australia to storage of photo and biometric data – Sydney Morning Herald
Photographs of millions of Australians will be stored by the Immigration Department, and this “biometric data” gathering could extend to fingerprinting and iris scanning under the Abbott government’s controversial counterterrorism laws.
The “foreign fighters” bill means there will be a major expansion of facial recognition imaging of Australians passing through international airports in a crackdown on passport fraud that could eventually apply to a wide range of biometric data – which could be shared with other government agencies.
Critics say the danger of such information being hacked is profound, given many personal electronic devices are now secured by fingerprints and iris scans.
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