Tag: Digital ID

Digital ID’s biggest challenge may be explaining how it works

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australians are struggling to understand the “concept” of the upcoming national Digital ID system, government commissioned research has found, confirming a key concern about the roll out of the...

Experts to guide lagging digital ID program

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Digital ID helping Ukraine crowdsource military intelligence

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Ukraine’s three-year-old digital ID system became an unlikely source of military intelligence in the nation’s defence against Russia, while far older tech has also proven more resilient than anticipated,...

DTA warns face matching law could spook digital ID

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

Morrison govt hit pause on digital ID

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

Digital ID brings Australia’s digital tipping point closer

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
As Singapore surges towards a 97 per cent digital ID adoption rate, Australia stands at its own digital tipping point.  While Singapore thrives under centralised governance, experts are calling...

Audit office to review govt tech misfires

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Two of the federal government’s most high-profile technology misfires of the past year, Defence’s myClearance vetting system and Parliament’s expenses management system, are to be examined by the Australia’s...

Govt has lost all momentum on digital ID: Fletcher

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The federal government has lost all momentum toward developing a national system of digital identity, a lack of action that is having an impact on the wider digital economy,...