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ATO to keep JobMaker businesses honest with data matching
Expands Covid compliance program.
Feb 10 2021 12:54PM
JobKeeper data matching flags 135,000 payment discrepancies
Program informing "proactive" compliance approach.
Oct 30 2020 11:53AM
Apprentice wage subsidy faces data matching crackdown
Education dept to access ATO data to stop JobKeeper double-dipping.
Sep 22 2020 6:55AM
Services Australia prepares to match payroll data to prevent overpayments
Data exchange rises from the ashes of robodebt.
Sep 15 2020 6:55AM
ATO to match data for early access super scheme, JobKeeper crackdown
Three million Aussies in the crosshairs.
Jun 23 2020 1:36PM
Services Australia put face matching to work for bushfire relief payments
Biometrics database trialled with hundreds displaced over summer.
Jun 5 2020 11:50AM
Queensland next to upload photos to national face matching database
Will join Victoria, SA and Tasmania.
May 13 2020 6:22AM
WA prepares for national face matching database upload
Introduces biometrics sharing laws.
Mar 27 2020 6:45AM
Three states complete national face matching database upload
Driver's licence data from millions now in central system.
Dec 11 2019 1:25PM
Govt told to rewrite facial recognition bills
Lacking detail and privacy protections.
Oct 24 2019 1:17PM
First states upload data to national facial recognition system
Victoria, Tasmania play national guinea pigs.
Sep 17 2019 11:57AM
Privacy bodies take aim at facial recognition laws
More checks and balances needed.
Mar 28 2018 6:20AM
Parliament to scrutinise facial recognition bills
Committee commences review.
Mar 8 2018 4:13PM
Qld biometrics sharing laws waved through
Public given five days to raise issue.
Mar 5 2018 12:00PM
Qld follows feds with new biometrics sharing laws
Ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
Feb 19 2018 11:40AM
Govt seeks to enshrine national facial recognition system in law
Enters bills into parliament.
Feb 7 2018 12:30PM
Victoria's role in the national facial biometric system
VicRoads opens up.
Nov 21 2017 6:20AM
Govts agree on national face matching database
Denies it amounts to 'mass surveillance'.
Oct 5 2017 12:40PM
ATO tackles cash economy with data matching
Plasterers under investigation.
Mar 31 2010 11:37AM
