QLD smart licence to go national

Facial recognition, signature matching, and card readers in every home.

Expectations that Queensland's emerging smart card driver licence will become a national model could see card readers in every Australian business, home, club and local video shop.

The license, which uses facial recognition, has been under development by Queensland Transport for three years, and aims to reduce fraud, simplify card issuing and cut red tape.

Other states in Australia are developing similar smart-card licensing, though none are as advanced as the New Queensland Driver License (NQDL) project.

Queensland Transport land transport and safety executive director Judy Oswin said the card will be the first in Australia to include facial recognition and will remove address details from the face of the license.

"It is a huge change that people are going to have to get used to," Oswin said.

"There is an awful amount of information that is relied upon on the face of the driver licence."

Registered clubs, car hire companies and other government agencies including Australia Post will have access to user data imbedded in the licence and stored in government databases for validation of identity, address, and whether the person is allowed to drive.

Such validation will require users to swipe their licence in a smart card reader and enter a pin number to allow the organisation to obtain basic licence details and conditions.

Oswin said other ancillary uses, such as automatic transfer of vehicle registration, will be integrated into the chip as the project develops.

"We need to focus on delivering the project but we are open to incorporating [other uses]," she said.

It will be the first time that images and written signatures are stored in a central repository for the Queensland drivers licence.

The NQDL project is pioneering smart card technology in the country, and has written components of the 24727 ISO standard which is yet to be completed.

Austroads, the association of Australian and New Zealand road transport and traffic authorities, is expected to promote the same standards used by the NQDL to ensure interoperability between states.

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates used in the Queensland license are expected to be adopted by all states.

Oswin said police will be able to use the same smart card readers to check licence conditions and confirm identity if uniformed PKI certificates are used.

Lax interoperability between state licencing will damage everything from fraud prevention, to law enforcement and future smart card initiatives.

Users will be able to update personal information over the Internet, and possibly in the future through a series of public smart card reader terminals.

Data on the smart card will be updated whenever it is placed in a reader, and users will be supplied with record of access.

The project began the "implementation phase" at the start of last year, and its expected to commence rolling out from late 2009.

More about: Australia Post, ISO

Comments

1

Anonymous

Mon 06/04/2009 - 21:12

facial recognition drivers license

Dear Transport Dept and the ALP. I, like 1000's of other legitimate drivers will refuse to take part in your Satanistic endeavours to lock us into your burgeoning main frame database to be flicked around the world to any despotic regime.
Never will we do it. we will drive without your defacto 'mark of the beast' if we have to.
Driving a motor vehicle is a natural right without government impediment unless the driver has caused or could potentially do harm to others.

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We the People Concilium

Tue 07/04/2009 - 01:07

Facial Recognition

"We need to focus on delivering the project but we are open to incorporating [other uses]," she said.
Oswin, please provide evidence to the public at large, that permission to drive; that is "driver" by definition of the Road Use Management Act [Cth] applies to them in some way. Your silence will be taken as evidence that there is no lawful reasoning that private road users can be refused from commuting to and fro across the country. Further more that your reference to "drivers" is admittance that you are apart of a wicked scheme to identify by intelligence gathering, men and woman under the previously rejected "Australia Card". The premier, Anna Bligh et al; Qld Attorney General, provide full disclosure to the people of this State and Australia, of your reference to the term fraud and how and why it applies to them and how it is deemed necessary to control fraud by this means when no real fraud exists!If there is any fraudulent activity, it is you wicked premier and cabinet perpetrating fraud against innocent men and women. This technology is simply a new method deployed by terrorist government against men and women, justifying rape pillage and plunder against them. There is no mandate given to implement such controls which render humans as chattels to the State as such. The perceived act of terrorism which you and your hench men rely on is living testimony to the truth of the Holy Scriptures which refers to government acting in iniquity as those framing wickedness by a law Ps 94:20-23. This Concilium is representing thousands of Australians when we say, you have no mandate given by the people to introduce this 24727 ISO scheme. We demand premier and cabinet to give full and complete disclosure as to the true motives of this apparent unabated attack on Queenslanders/ Australians. WE demand full disclosure of those who are demanding it from premier and cabinet to fulfill this back door Australia Card agenda. By Order of the People, otherwise its your full commercial liability and credibility and eternal future at stake Anna Bligh et al.

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Anonymous

Tue 07/04/2009 - 17:00

Qld smart licence

It'll never work - too many women having face lifts and muslim women insisting on having their driving licence photo taken whilst wearing a burkha as they do in the UK!!

4

Anonymous

Fri 13/11/2009 - 08:16

It wont be long before financial institutions are allowed access to this information. Check out articles on the "New Credit Reporting System" which has passed legislation, very clandestine I might add and put the two together. This is the start of the creation of a social "elite". They are just going too far!!

5

Angus Grogan

Tue 20/12/2011 - 18:00

This is a disgusting abuse of our rights. I will not "just get used to it" nor will I have my facial recognition data stored without my consent.

6

james

Wed 11/01/2012 - 12:35

this is communism f**k what this country has become soon you wont have a name just a number driving is not a big deal!

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