OPINION: Soon you won't need a passport — but the delays will be diabolical if something goes wrong
The current speed of technological developments is drastically reducing the life cycle of technological investments — particularly when it comes to applications that rely on the underlying infrastructure of servers, networks and storage. So traditional public-sector approaches to technological innovation projects require greater capital expenditure more often.
This point was illustrated in today's outage: while Border Force made valiant efforts to reduce the impact of the outage by manually processing passengers, the responsibility for fixing the issue resided with Home Affairs. Regardless of who was responsible, this event has had very real economic costs and security implications.
If the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is right, then surely our biometrics — our facial characteristics and finger prints — should be worth a whole lot more to us than convenience.
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