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Digital services boost in NSW budget

New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet has confirmed the state budget, the last before NSW voters goes to the polls next March, comes in at a surplus of $3.9...

NEC identity gig faces ANAO audit

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An investigation has been launched into the suspended biometrics project that NEC Australia was doing for the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission. The audit of the Australian Crime Intelligence Commission’s...

Qld biometric bill gets a pass

Posted on   |  by James Riley
An amendment to legislation in Queensland that would give the state’s law enforcement access to shared biometric face matching services is being described as “incredibly problematic” by digital privacy...

Biometrics back on DTA agenda

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Federal Government is running a private beta of its digital identity platform ahead of a planned public test early next year. To use the service, people will need...

DTO slows national identity plan

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has applied the brakes to its national identity framework plans. In a letter sent to the 70-odd organisations that replied to its Request for...

Privacy lobby digs trench, sets gun

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...

Biometric identity: Please explain

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A digital identity platform is absolutely essential if the government’s grand vision of streamlined, digital-delivered services is ever to be fully realised. But it needs to be properly explained,...

DTO eyes biometric identity system

Posted on   |  by James Riley
When the Digital Transformation Office takes the wraps off its identity framework at the end of the month it will feature a previously unannounced biometric component. At an Identity...