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 identity, the Digital Transformation Agency has warned.
The caution comes as the government prepares to introduce separate legislation for an economy-wide expansion of its digital identity system that has been several years in the making and aimed at giving citizens greater confidence.
The government introduced the Identity Verification Services Bill to Parliament last month, ending an almost three-year wait for a way forward on legislation that was thrown out by the bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in 2019.
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