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Govt unveils digital ID private sector expansion plans

The government has released more details on its plan to expand its digital identity scheme to the private sector and the states, as it pushes to significantly accelerate the...

Biometrics scoped for digital ID scheme

18 May 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Private companies will soon be able to join the government’s federated digital identity program with the further use of biometrics also being scoped. The Digital Transformation Agency has now...

Face recognition hearing cancelled

14 October 2019 | by Denham Sadler

A public hearing into the federal government’s highly controversial facial recognition database plans has been cancelled at the last minute. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS)...

Vic’s road-test Fed biometric database

18 September 2019 | by Denham Sadler

Victoria will be the first state to test the federal government’s controversial national facial recognition database, but access to the biometric data will be restricted to state authorities, at...

NEC Australia loses half its leadership

10 April 2019 | by James Riley

The departure of NEC Australia general manager Mike Barber means half of the tech company’s leadership team has left in the last year and a half, in the wake...

Report urges facial ID transparency

8 April 2019 | by James Riley

The federal government should be more transparent about its use of facial recognition technology and work more closely with the private sector in development ICT tools for law enforcement,...

$26m lost on biometric project

4 December 2018 | by James Riley

At least $26 million in taxpayer funds was lost on the national crime intelligence commission’s doomed biometrics project before it was canned earlier this year. In June the ACIC...

Report: ‘Litany of failures’

27 June 2018 | by James Riley

There has been a “litany of failures largely unprecedented in scale” in the federal government’s digital transformation efforts, with a need for major structural changes and long-term whole-of-government approaches,...

Tech wreck report delayed again

20 June 2018 | by Vitaly

A Senate report on the federal government’s series of “tech wrecks” has been delayed again following the shuttering of another high-profile IT project. The Labor-led Finance and Public Administration...

Digital services boost in NSW budget

19 June 2018 | by James Riley

New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has confirmed the state budget, the last before NSW voters goes to the polls next March, comes in at a surplus of $3.9...

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