Australian Academics Layout Framework For Digital ID And Facial Biometrics In New South Wales

The WinePress reported on the first glimpses of NSW’s digital ID in March of this year. SEE: New South Wales Australia Set To Launch All-In-One Digital ID To Fully Replace Physical Documents And Requires Facial Recognition

Biometric Update provides more updates on what the academics determined:

A new report from Australian researchers proposes guardrails for New South Wales’ digital ID system and notes the need to build public trust when using biometric facial verification tools and liveness detection.

The report is written by Professor Edward Santow, Sophie Farthing and Lauren Perry of the Human Technology Institute (HTI) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and backed by the James Martin Institute for Public Policy. In a release, Santow says that the NSW government’s digital ID initiative, which combines selfie verification and liveness detection through the Service NSW app, “is groundbreaking, because it seeks to ‘bake in’ protections that make the system more robust, while simultaneously building public trust.”