Australia’s national facial biometrics matching database was set to the exam through the catastrophic Black Summer season bushfires to verify the identities of persons who had their documents destroyed.

The fee into national purely natural disaster arrangements on Thursday heard biometrics was trialled previous summer as a signifies to enable deliver disaster aid payments to displaced people.

Providers Australia deputy chief Michelle Lees, who is responsible for shopper provider delivery, explained “a encounter verification provider and biometric alignment all-around evidence of identity” was utilised.

The Department of Home Affairs first unveiled the use of the encounter verification provider (FVS) for