Attorneys-general and law enforcement officials from across Australia agreed recently to “plan on a plan” for a database that will utilize pictures from passports and licenses for identifying criminals as well as creating easier in-roads for police to share data, Biometric Update reports. The strategy moving forward is still hardly resolute, the report states, indicating that the document itself “includes vaguely worded planned resolutions to eliminating existing legislative and cultural barriers that prevent state and federal police forces from sharing important data.”
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