{"id":440306,"date":"2021-12-20T05:08:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/?p=26694"},"modified":"2021-12-20T05:08:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T05:08:52","slug":"govt-pours-170m-into-second-attempt-at-biometrics-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/20\/govt-pours-170m-into-second-attempt-at-biometrics-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt pours $170m into second attempt at biometrics overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has allocated nearly $170 million to have another go at overhauling an aging fingerprints database used by law enforcement agencies, with all of this funding already committed to a French tech firm. It comes after a previous attempt at this was scrapped three years ago at a cost to taxpayers of nearly...<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/govt-pours-170m-into-second-attempt-at-biometrics-overhaul\/\">Govt pours $170m into second attempt at biometrics overhaul<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/\">InnovationAus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/govt-pours-170m-into-second-attempt-at-biometrics-overhaul\/\">InnovationAus<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has allocated nearly $170 million to have another go at overhauling an aging fingerprints database used by law enforcement agencies, with all of this funding already committed to a French tech firm. It comes after a previous atte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32210,39972,39837,39973,39974,2045],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440307,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440306\/revisions\/440307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}