The Independent Gambling Authority (IGA) of South Australia has thrown its support behind use of smartcards to limit problem gambling, but warned politicians last week the technology could have adverse effects on the industry.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has flagged facial recognition as an ongoing area of development in its increased use of biometric technology.
Sydney Airport has expanded its use of facial recognition technology, launching new kiosks and a ‘SmartGate’ to allow international travellers to more quickly establish their identities and pass through security.
The Federal Government has announced a major expansion in its use of biometrics to now include all onshore protection visa applicants.
Plans by the South Australian Government to roll out biometrics at a number of prisons acrosss the state have been delayed due to required construction work.
A biometric driver licence system has been unveiled in Toowoomba as the Queensland Government begins replacing old licences to combat identity fraud.
The Queensland Government’s new biometric driver's licences are expected to go live with the next two months following a successful trial in August and September.
TAMPA -- The U.S. military is taking cloud computing into rugged terrain in Afghanistan, where according to Lt. Gen. Richard Zahner, the basic hardware and software technology is being packed into mobile boxes that later this year will start to play a key role in networking for soldiers in the sky and on the ground.
3M has agreed to buy biometric access control systems vendor Cogent for around $US943 million in cash.
The South Australian Government is mulling the deployment of biometric identification across its Department for Correctional Services (DCS) run prisons.
Airports could soon trial a locally-built facial recognition technology in a move to crack down on illegal immigration, terrorism and crime.
Cloud computing is one of those industry terms that's being slung across meeting rooms, discussed in forums and talked about by big industry players. Over the last few weeks, we've been told that cloud computing is going to change the channel ecosystem, that Microsoft is building infrastructure and software around it and that doctors will soon be using it to get to patients.
The Australian government has been paying a lot of attention to biometrics lately. Earlier this year, the government put $69 million into a new biometric visa system that would screen visitors via their fingerprints. Even now, the NSW police use mobile fingerprint scanners to verify criminal identities, which allows police to cross-check with recorded fingerprints in a database. Biometric data is already being used by several countries to prevent identity fraud.
Australian government agency, Crimtrac, has proposed tying fingerprints to passports and drivers licenses in an effort to reduce false identification for background checks.
The Federal Government has tipped $69 million into a new biometric visa system which will screen visitors entering Australia from a secret list of 10 countries.