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  • Customs may shelve new cargo application

    The federal government appears to have paved the way for a controversial sea cargo import reporting system to be bypassed for now and the old system reinstated amid turmoil at ports and air freight hubs.

  • Customs officially launches SmartGate technology

    The Minister for Justice and Customs, Senator Chris Ellison, has confirmed international interest in passport photo-matching technology launched officially in Sydney today.

  • SmartGate biometric system under question

    Irregularities in evaluations of SmartGate's over its six week trial period have raised questions about Customs Minister Chris Ellison's claims concerning the biometric passport systems' performance.

  • SmartGate critics will be silenced: Report author

    Critics of the SmartGate facial recognition system will soon be silenced said the co-author of the first comprehensive study on the program expected to be released next year.

  • Customs stalls on releasing biometric passport survey

    The Australian Customs Service (ACS) is refusing to release results of its survey of Qantas personnel participating in a pilot of its SmartGate biometric facial recognition technology at Sydney Airport.

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