[1] Australian law enforcement agencies have collectively supported a plan to build a national facial recognition database that will allow easier matching of faces to images on visas, passports etc.
[2] This is part of the 2015-18 security strategy which prioritises information sharing capabilities and the battle against cybercrime with the development of a national facial biometric matching capability.
[3] Attorneys-General and police ministers from the Commonwealth, states and territories have met today in Canberra to work on modalities of a coordinated plan to combat cross-border criminal networks.
[Source] Australian Information Technology News – Aussie police back national facial recognition database
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