So the final report and seminar was meant to be my last post for this subject, however recent news seems my experiment was very topical and warrants an additional after thought.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/commonwealth-to-embark-on-major-digital-upgrade-of-government-services-20200928-p56031.html
So looks like mygov, one of the governments largest online portals, will be enhanced with face recognition technology for authentication. This is all part of the government’s Digital Business Plan. The prototype I conceived and have started building is almost exactly the same as the proposed upgrade.
The new authentication enhancement would run across multiple platforms and would need to tech stack agnostic. My architecture was designed for the application to run locally, using online micro web service calls to run the authentication calls. The db to store URL, username / password combinations would be stored locally. The micro service calls would simply return a boolean to match the face with URL then the credentials would be pulled from the local db and supplied to the URL and submitted.
Good to see at least my idea was solid and is defined as ‘innovative’.