Tag: Digital ID

‘Standard gauge’ for digital licences passes key road-test

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia has edged closer to cross-border acceptance of digital driver’s licences after a prototype verification platform designed to bring common standards into effect was successfully road-tested with users. The...

Govt’s $3m digital ID push in the Pacific

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia will spend almost $3 million on the development of digital identity infrastructure for Pacific Island nations as part of the Albanese government’s effort to counter China’s influence in...

Government bows to pressure on digital ID hosting

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has bowed to pressure from the technology and banking lobbies and scrubbed rules that would prevent data from the nation’s digital identity scheme being hosted outside...

$288m Budget cash splash for digital identity

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Albanese government will tip another $288.1 million into its digital identity program in Tuesday’s federal Budget to run pilots and beef up infrastructure, regulation and security in a...

‘Select sourcing’ of EY for $10.7m Digital ID register

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Consulting giant EY will be paid almost $1 million a month to build the regulatory technology underpinning Australia’s expanding digital identity system, after the big four firm landed its...

Digital ID providers to be kept to a minimum: Gallagher

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Less than 10 private digital ID providers, including banks and payments service providers, are initially expected to be accepted into the expanded version of the federal government’s digital identity...