In a move meant to help keep communities safe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, two of Australia’s most populous states have announced trials of a system that will use facial […]

Australian privacy advocates have raised concerns about a new Online Safety Act that is currently in front of the country’s Parliament. The Act would grant much broader powers to the […]

The Australian Border Force (ABF) has announced it has put out a request for technology vendors for a fleet of new portable biometric devices capable of both the collection and […]

Scott Morrison’s Australian government has shared some more details about its anticipated digital business plan, which will allocate $800 million to help businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Prime […]

The Australian government is responding to COVID-19 with an $800 million digital business plan to accelerate the country’s economic recovery. Most of that money ($419.9 million) will go towards a […]

A pair of computer security experts from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia, are raising concerns regarding the safety of data collected from TikTok users, speculating on the possibility […]

Edward Santow is asking Australian lawmakers to pass more stringent facial recognition regulations. Santow is the country’s Human Rights Commissioner, and argued that law enforcement agencies should not be allowed […]

IDEMIA has extended its business relationship with Australia’s New South Wales Police Force, with the two parties agreeing to a six-year contract for the support and maintenance of IDEMIA’s LiveScan […]

The Western Australian (WA) government has introduced legislation that will allow it to begin sharing citizen’s driver’s license information with the National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution (NDLFRS), Australia’s national […]

Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has said it is expecting that the biometric component of its myGovID program will be ready for a public beta test rollout later this year. […]