A new facial recognition system will be embedded within the New South Wales government’s licence and photocard register before the end of 2026, giving agencies better fraud detection capabilities.
Transport for NSW issued a tender last week that will see it replace the state’s existing NEC facial recognition system with an off-the-shelf solution offering both one-to-one and one-to-many photo matching.
The new solution is expected to “significantly decrease the risk of fraud against TfNSW”, compared with the NEC system that has been in place since 2018 and is now nearing end-of-life.
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