First published on Cairnsnews June 9, 2017
The Federal Government will soon finalise the complete and ultimate facial recognition records for all Australian citizens.
And Pauline Hanson wants a national ID Card?
A national data base of passport, driver, gun owner and high risk equipment operator licence photos will be kept for access by just whom remains unknown.
Federal and State police, immigration officers and Border Force will have access, but it seems more clandestine bodies will get their hands on your complete identity.
ASIO, ASIS and reciprocal overseas spy agencies could also have access to all of your personal data.
It should be noted that Australia has arrangements with some rather dubious nations for exchanging the personal information of all our citizens.
CCTV footage as depicted in US television shows such as NCIS Los Angeles will end up in captured data as supposedly trained facial recognition experts scan your face while you browse the shopping mall, fuel your car at the service station or sit on a park bench.
Queensland Traffic Police and their contractors have had this technology for three years, photographing you in your car every time you pass a highway patrol vehicle or stationary camera car, storing your image and that of passengers, vehicle description, direction, time and date of travel.
The police cars have infa-red ability and can photograph the driver and all passengers in the car as you pass. By then your number plate will have been read by the on-board computer and sent online to the huge data bank in Roma Street Police HQ and another massive data bank held by the Main Roads Department.
Soon after the facial images of the car occupants will be sent to the national Face Identification Service.
Nearly 80 per cent of people over 16 hold a drivers licence and 55 per cent have a passport. More than 600,000 citizens have a photographic gun licence in Queensland.
Justice Minister Michael Keenan told News Corp that passport photos would be accessed in the coming months and drivers licences would be tapped into after ongoing discussions with the states were finalised.
The Face Identification Service will match a photo of an unknown person against multiple government records to help establish their identity.
“These biometric services will change the face of crime fighting in Australia,” Mr Keenan, a Liberal, said.
The final piece of the identity jigsaw is about to come into place. Tasmania MP Andrew Wilkie has warned Australia will become the police state, test case for the final solution.
Well, this technology should eradicate all pedophiles and abuser then pretty quickly. Oh wait, that would be a waste of resources…let’s just spy on the average aussie just living their lives. Where can I move to run away from this shit? Is this why shops all have entry and exit points to scan your face with their cameras?
They can all go and jump this isn’t communist China this is Australia we don’t put up with that junk.
And roughly 2 million registered [with photo identity] ‘permitted’ shooters Australia wide!
We have done the ‘correct’ thing.
How about we go back in time, to when someone started to collect personal and ‘private’
details of PUBLIC SERVANTS. Is someone going to try and tell me none of them are criminals! Can you imagine the corruption that will follow? Guilty ’til proven innocent’?
I’m sick of these parasites that think they are holier than thou! And use our taxes to brow-beat us!!!
And it won’t stop criminals! Look how many would be put out of a lucrative job if they really did stop criminals!
If they can identify ppl already , that pose a problem, put ankle bracelets on them or deport them if required, but for law abiding punters “NO “piss off
instead of wasting taxpayers money it would be better to deport all non law abiding nationalities
It is all very well for Mike Peterson to say “don’t vote” but all the lefties will vote anyway, which means Labor will win and we don’t want that. Our vote is the only means we have of getting rid of a corrupt government, so, I for one, will be voting!