Want your face scanned? Travel to Australia

Futurism posted this video regarding Australia replacing passports with facial recognition at airport starting this June:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNRJkNjSljA

Personally, I think this raises so many privacy issues that it’s scary. What will they do with all that data? Who’ll benefit from it, and when someone steals it (because that’s bound to happen), what will the data be used for then?

I think I’ll stay clear of Australia in the future.