Tag: biometrics

$26m lost on biometric project 

Posted on   |  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’

Posted on   |  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

Posted on   |  by James Riley
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

Posted on   |  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...

NEC identity gig faces ANAO audit

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An investigation has been launched into the suspended biometrics project that NEC Australia was doing for the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission. The audit of the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission’s...

Qld biometric bill gets a pass

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An amendment to legislation in Queensland that would give the state’s law enforcement access to shared biometric face matching services is being described as “incredibly problematic” by digital privacy...

Biometrics back on DTA agenda

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Federal Government is running a private beta of its digital identity platform ahead of a planned public test early next year. To use the service, people will need...

DTO slows national identity plan

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has applied the brakes to its national identity framework plans. In a letter sent to the 70-odd organisations that replied to its Request for...

Privacy lobby digs trench, sets gun

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...