Summary Offences (Biometric Identification) Amendment Bill
29/10/2015
The Hon. K.L. VINCENT: I would like to speak very briefly at the second reading of the Summary offences (Biometric Identification) Amendment Bill. In so doing, I will not rehash the extensive points made by colleagues such as the Hon. Andrew McLachlan and the Hon. Mark Parnell, but I will put on the record that Dignity for Disability does have concerns about the potential implications of this bill in terms of privacy and the comprehensive information that police could end up with in relation to many people, not just those who have committed, or who are alleged to have committed, a crime.
While we support this bill going into committee, we do have these concerns and hope that the questions which we certainly have and which have already been raised by other members will be answered before it proceeds any further. We would certainly appreciate it if the relevant minister could provide answers to those questions in the committee stage so that we can decide whether or not we will support the further advancement of the bill.
