Laws allowing the federal government to legally operate its document and face matching systems are facing an uphill battle in the Senate, with the Greens and the Coalition backing...
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Further pilots of New South Wales’ decentralised digital identity system are “imminent”, with the state’s government service delivery agency expected to undertake at least one trial before the end...
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Experts in service delivery, verification, privacy and inclusion have been brought in to guide the expansion of Australia’s digital ID program, now in its eighth year with more than...
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Digital ID precursor legislation that provides a legal basis for the government to operate its document and face matching systems has passed the lower house despite privacy concerns from...
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The Albanese government settled on an outdated privacy framework for long-overdue laws to govern its document and face matching systems, despite acknowledging the protections are inadequate. That’s according to...
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Two of Australia’s biggest banks are forging ahead with a digital identity service in the absence of legislation for an economy-wide expansion of the federal government’s national digital identity...
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Proposed laws that would allow authorities to use the federal government’s identity services to conduct one-to-many matches in very limited circumstances could be detrimental to the uptake of digital...
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The former federal government put its digital identity regime into a “holding pattern” last year, slowing its progress and introducing a “high-risk” profile into the $600 million project. Continued...
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A pilot program to test New South Wales’ forthcoming decentralised digital identity system is at a standstill, with no new trials of the NSW Digital ID taking place since...
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The Albanese government has kicked off public consultations on a proposed expansion of its digital identity system, with draft legislation revealing plans for a phased roll-out to the private...
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The Albanese government has introduced legislation to Parliament that paves the way for Australians to use a digital identity to witness documents online, promising $156 million in time and...
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The federal government’s digital identity regime will mitigate a digital class divide by making robust identity proofing more accessible to all Australians, according to Government Services minister Bill Shorten....
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Controversial facial recognition laws previously rejected by Parliament’s intelligence and security committee could be reintroduced in “parallel” with the Albanese government’s new digital identity legislation. As the timeline for...
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The Department of Finance has assumed control of the federal government $600 million-plus digital identity program, taking policy duties from the Digital Transformation Agency in the latest carve up...