[LINK] UnSmart Access Card - EFA submission to DHS Taskforce

[Irene Graham]

EFA's submission to the DHS Access Card Consumer and Privacy Taskforce is 
now available at: 
http://www.efa.org.au/Publish/efasubm-dhs-accesscard-2006.html

In very brief:

EFA is deeply concerned by the planned rollout of a so-called Access Card 
smart card linked to a centralised database containing identification, and 
other, information about almost every adult Australian and Australian 
residents. 

The proposal is flawed because it produces a "honeypot effect" - a highly 
attractive and richly rewarding single target for criminals engaged in 
identity theft. 

EFA rejects the notion that the planned card is not an ID Card and 
recommends that Australians reject the so-called Access Card and related 
centralised database for substantially the same reasons as the Australia 
Card was rejected. 

The government should go back to the drawing board and design system/s to 
resolve the system failures within the Department of Human Services instead 
pf turning everyone into an identity card subject linked to a centralised 
national identity database. 

Irene

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Irene Graham
Executive Director - Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. (EFA)
Web: <http://www.efa.org.au>
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