This burden is easily absorbed by the multi-nationals et al, but is a significant extra cost the the small businesses that provide circa 80% of the jobs and innovation in our economy. Why is business burdened with enforcing the law? Other than restricted goods such as alcohol, tobacco and firearms etc, when has a business been required to check the identity, let alone the the Gov approved status, of its customers? Not a word anywhere in it why it will be good for any of us in any way, other than it will be cheaper to keep an eye on us and much much easier. Anyway, here is the government’s bright as a button booklet to help you understand how much they want these changes made: Your Guide to the Digital Identity Legislation. Very late in the day but someone who actually cares about privacy ought to be making this an issue. What will be included? Our financial records? Our medical records? Who will be able to gain access? Under what conditions? Is Facial Recognition Technology part of it? Why we should be grateful that the government will find it easier to access information about us is beyond me, especially in a system that will be as leaky as this? Why should I want anyone to have such access, let alone our state premiers (see Dan Andrews) or our commercial banks?
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Researchers find myGovID is subject to an easily-implemented code proxying attack, while the digital identity solution from Australia Post does not possess a fundamental requirement for accreditation. Researchers want Australia’s digital ID system thrown out and redesigned from scratch Instead of listening to researchers recommending the Australian government abandon its existing digital identity system and start again from scratch, after highlighting again security flaws in two of the systems already accredited, the government has opened a second round of consultation, this time on the development of legislation. They try to be positive but there is also this: I have googled and put through DuckDuckGo a query on “media digital identification legislation” and not a single news report is found anywhere, other than a single report from The Cairns News on how wonderful this change will be.īut there was this, almost uniquely available: Australia to open digital ID system to private sector with consultation on new legislation on ZDNet, which is hardly a household media outlet.
The media organisations and media people we think we can count on to protect us from government intrusion into our lives, and to inform us when there are threats to our privacy, are invisible on the vast expansion of the Federal Government’s Digital Identification system.
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