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Australia's biometric identification project has been terminated

A project to create a crime database using facial recognition has been dumped.

  • The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission announced the termination of a $52 million contract with NEC Australia.
  • Reports that the project costs had doubled to almost $100 million.

The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission’s (ACIC) biometrics project, adding facial recognition to a national crime database, has been binned following reports of delays and budget blowouts.

ACIC today announced it had decided to discontinue the Biometric Identification Services project following significant delays.

The contract signed in April 2016 with NEC Australia to deliver the crime next generation fighting tool was terminated today. It had been due to run to 2021.

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By Chris Pash

Chris Pash has been a correspondent, bureau chief, editor and news company chief executive.

His book, The Last Whale, is a narrative non-fiction account about those who worked at the last whaling station in Australia and the activists who fought to close it down.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Australian Society of Authors and a former director of the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association (PANPA).

(Source: businessinsider.com.au; June 15, 2018; http://tinyurl.com/y6u6e3uq)
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