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The Department of Home Affairs is seeking funding to expand Australia’s identity-matching system

Source: Pirate Press, 19/02/2022


The Department of Home Affairs is looking for a company that can help them build and deploy parts of the country’s identity-matching Services (IDMS), as well as host and manage parts of the existing IDMS system so that people can use them.
The IDMS was set up to stop people from using fake or stolen identities, help law enforcement find people of interest, and allow other government agencies to provide services. This was set up after the political leaders of all of Australia’s states and territories agreed to it in 2017.
Part of it is the document verification service (DVS), a national online service that checks documents for authenticity, accuracy, and up-to-dateness in real-time. It has three parts.
Another is a Face-Matching Services Hub (FMS), which acts as a “broker” between agencies that want to get biometric and biographic data about people’s identities and the agencies that have that data.
NDLFRS is used to check a person’s identity by looking at their face or their driver’s license from each state and territory road agency to make sure they are who they say they are.
During a tender, the Department of Home Affairs said it needs help moving the country’s NDLFRS from an unknown service provider to a new provider while keeping the current system running during the transition. It also says that the service provider would take over all of the responsibilities for the NDLFRS.
If you want, you can have both hubs built, then test them and see if they work. The department wants both hubs to be combined into one so they can provide both services at the same time.
Another goal for the department is to build a secure, automated way to move facial images and their associated data between IDM participants, as well as a web-based portal for IDMS users to submit and receive information match requests for biometric and biographic data.
This is just one of a number of requirements in the tender. Other requirements include having agreed on common data standards as well as guidelines and protocols to exchange both biometric and biographic data.
Proposals are due on March 11, 2022.
The request for tender comes after a lot of people have been talking about how biometric tools and data are used by different government agencies in Australia. In April of last year, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said they were using Clearview AI facial recognition software to fight child exploitation, even though they didn’t have the right laws in place.
In the end, an investigation by Australia’s Information Commissioner found that the AFP’s use of the Clearview AI platform violated the privacy of its citizens.
Separately, an investigation found that Clearview AI facial recognition tool took sensitive information from Australians without their permission and used it in a way that was not fair. This violated Australia’s privacy laws on many different levels, according to the report.
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