Australian States Expand Facial Recognition and Biometric Digital ID Systems
The framing obscures the architecture underneath: a permanent biometric database that expands with every new service it touches.
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The framing obscures the architecture underneath: a permanent biometric database that expands with every new service it touches.
The cancellation is real, but the infrastructure that made the partnership feel plausible in the first place is still very much running.
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