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​​Australian plans to allow government sharing of facial images suffer parliamentary setback

( October 24, 2019, 23:24 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Draft Australian measures to allow the country's government to create a database using facial-recognition has suffered a setback in the country's parliament. Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security returned both the Identity-matching Services Bill 2019 and the Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019 to the government, calling for them to be redrafted. Committee Chairman Andrew Hastie, a lawmaker from the governing Liberal Party, said the bills needed to more explicitly incorporate protections for individuals' rights.Full statement follows: ...

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