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  • Custom to finally deliver SmartGate

    After seven years testing border control biometrics, Australian Customs Service says every Australian international airport will be equipped with SmartGate by June 2009.

  • E-passport fraud no threat to SmartGate

    The Australian Customs Service today said its inbound e-passport authentication system SmartGate would not be fooled by fake details, after a Dutch hacker claimed to have broken through similar systems in Europe.

  • AFP stalls in India as crime embraces offshoring

    Despite missing its target to set up a base in India to target ID theft and information crime, the AFP says it's still planning to open its offshore centre.

  • Integ scores AU$6m DFAT voice deal

    Integrator Integ Communications will convert the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) national and international telephony network to voice over IP in a deal worth more than AU$6 million.

  • UXC speeds up drug listings for federal dept

    update: Local services company UXC has won a AU$3 million contract with the federal Department of Health and Ageing to streamline the processes required for drugs to be listed on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS).

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  • An eye for an aye

    Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

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  • Biometrics special: Who are you?

    Forgotten your password again? Read on to find out how you'll be logging on, checking in, and signing off in the very near future.

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