Biometric Data Part of Australia’s Plan to Protect Citizens’ Identity

An X5 group representative demonstrates a facial recognition payment system at a self-checkout machine in in Moscow, Russia, on March 9, 2021. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images

The Australian government is pushing for the use of biometric data to fight off identity thieves amid recent waves of cyber crimes that rocked the country.

In the newly released National Strategy for Identity Resilience, the federal government outlined ten principles to protect the identities of Australians, which all state and territory governments approved.