Public Sector Union launches campaign against visa privatisation data security risk
Summary
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) has kicked off a campaign against the Australian governments visa privatisation plan, labelling the initiative a data security risk.The government should be investing in internal systems and their staff, not handing more than AU$2 billion in Commonwealth revenue to the private sector," the CPSU added.The newly shaped superministry is working through its data problem while coming to grips with being understaffed and operating 20-year-old systems run on a mainframe.The countrys newly crowned Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton has said facial recognition at airports in Australia is merely a few technology generations away from being rolled out.E-passports contain a cryptographic hash of a passport holders details, designed to make it almost impossible to forge a travel document or steal someones identity.