Australia: Police to Get Smartcard Data
James Riley and Simon Kearney write on Australian IT:
Intelligence agencies and police will be given access to a vast database of "biometric" photographs of Australians to be created for the new health and welfare smart card to fight terrorism and more general crime.More here.
ASIO and the Federal Police will be allowed routine access to the smart card database on national security issues, while state police will have restricted access for general crime investigations.
The Prime Minister said this week government would proceed with a $1 billion plan to issue Australians with a health and welfare smart card, but ruled out developing a compulsory national ID scheme.
The card would have a highly accurate photograph, with the detailed information about the person's face recorded on the computer chip embedded in the card.
The photo and the chip would be checked against a central government database.
posted by Fergie @ 4/28/2006 09:08:00 AM
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