By Justin Lee
August 27, 2015
A note from Pastor Kevin Lea follows this article.
The Australian government is expected to roll out a new biometric system next year that will allow law enforcement agencies to share facial images amongst themselves, according to a report by ZDNet.
The facial recognition system will deploy a one-to-one matching functionality to confirm identities of known individuals before gradually introducing additional functionality to match unknown individuals, said the Attorney-General’s department.
“The technical architecture of the capability will adopt a hub-and-spoke model to facilitate ‘query and response’ matching requests between participating agencies,” the department said. “The capability will allow agencies with a lawful authority to collect and share existing holdings of facial images (via the Hub) to check the validity of images presented to them with facial image holdings of other agencies. There are currently over 100 million facial images held by agencies that issue identity documents.”
Several agencies will be granted access to the system including the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Defence, and the Attorney-General’s Department under the guidance of AusCheck.
The Attorney-General’s department is currently working with Austroads, the association of Australasian road transport and traffic agencies, to create a business case for submitting drivers’ licenses to the system.
The two agencies are working towards completing an agreement on a “preferred national approach” by the end of the year.
The system is designed to share still images and will not integrate any licence plate cameras or closed-circuit TV.
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However, the department said that the system could still potentially use stills from these high-resolution cameras.
“The capability is designed to replace existing manual, ad hoc facial image sharing arrangements between agencies, providing an efficient, secure, and accountable mechanism through which images can be shared and matched,” the department said. “The design and operation of the hub will be informed by independent privacy impact assessments, conducted in consultation with federal and state privacy commissioners.”
Instead of developing a new centralized database, the system will be operated in a hub-and-spoke topology to prevent “considerable privacy and data security concerns”.
Earlier this week, an independent report found that Australia’s federal government has failed to perform adequate privacy impact assessments on nearly 90 percent of the national security measures it has passed over the past 14 years, according to independent research
Note from Pastor Kevin Lea:
Many credit card companies are talking about implementing facial recognition into their credit card biometric authentication security systems. Therefore, in the not too distant future those who “buy and sell” will have provided several digital examples of their face for the national (and international) data bases.
Many countries, like Australia, are saturating their public places with cameras that feed into facial recognition programs so that those in public places can be identified in real time. All of this will result in an all-knowing police state in which no one will be able to hide.
I suspect many will scoff by saying only criminals should be concerned about this technology. I wonder if they will change their mind when “criminal” is redefined as anyone who is not in agreement with every view held by “the government”?
It does appear that we are about to repeat history, only this time with amazing technology that will provide complete control over all people. Heil Hitler then, Heil Antichrist soon.
So they [unbelieving masses during the seven year Tribulation before Jesus’ physical return to earth] worshiped the dragon [Satan] who gave authority to the beast [Antichrist]; and they worshiped the beast [Antichrist], saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb [Jesus] slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. (Revelation 13:4-10) NKJV