{"id":26652,"date":"2017-10-10T06:32:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26652"},"modified":"2017-10-10T06:32:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:32:54","slug":"the-face-of-surveillance-malcolm-turnbulls-recognition-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26652","title":{"rendered":"The Face of Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s Recognition Database"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Face of Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s Recognition Database<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Never miss an opportunity in the security business.\u00a0 A massacre in Las Vegas has sent its tremors through the establishments, and made its way across the Pacific into the corridors of Canberra and the Prime Minister\u2019s office.\u00a0 Australia\u2019s Malcolm Turnbull is very keen to make hay out of blood, and has suggested another broadening of the security state: the creation of a national facial recognition data base.<\/p>\n

It stands to reason.\u00a0 Energy policy is in a state of free fall.\u00a0 The government\u2019s broadband network policy has proven disastrous, uneven, inefficient and costly. Australia is falling back in the ranks, a point that Turnbull dismisses as \u201crubbish statistics\u201d (importantly showing that President Donald Trump is not the only purveyor of fanciful figures).<\/p>\n

The Turnbull government is also in the electoral doldrums, struggling to keep up with a Labor opposition which has shown signs of breaking away into a canter.\u00a0 The only thing keeping this government in scourers and saucepans is the prospect that Turnbull is the more popular choice of prime minister.<\/p>\n

Enter, then, the prism of the national interest, the chances afforded to his political survival by the safety industrial complex.\u00a0 Turnbull, a figure who, when in the law, stressed the importance of various liberties, is attempting to convince all the governments of Australia that terrorism suspects can be detained for periods of up to 14 days without charge.\u00a0 Lazy law enforcement officials, rejoice.<\/p>\n

Tagged to that agenda, one he wishes to run by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in Canberra, is the fanciful need for a national facial recognition database.\u00a0 This dystopian fantasy of an information heavy, centralised database is one Australians have historically have opposed with admirable scepticism.\u00a0 It has been something that Anglophone countries have tended to cast a disapproving look upon, a feature of a civilization suspicious of intrusions made by the executive.<\/p>\n

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The Face of Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s Recognition Database Never miss an opportunity in the security business.\u00a0 A massacre in Las Vegas has sent its tremors through the establishments, and made its way across the Pacific into the corridors of Canberra and the Prime Minister\u2019s office.\u00a0 Australia\u2019s Malcolm Turnbull is very keen to make hay out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15948,5493,290,4771,9075,5570,16401,765],"class_list":["post-26652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-binoy-kampmark","tag-counterpunch","tag-facial-recognition","tag-las-vegas","tag-malcolm-turnbull","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-recognition-database","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26653,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26652\/revisions\/26653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}