[LINK] Access Card - Inquiry

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Stewart Fist wrote:
> Has anyone done a critique of the Alan Fells committee proposals?
> 
> I'd like to see it.
> 
>  When Fells has doubts, I think we should all be concerned.  But he is not
> terribly technically literate.
> 
Like the QANTAS project,
<http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2007-February/072150.html>

maybe it isn't the technology but business model/case issues...

> Your data private? Access all areas is on the cards
> Tanya Plibersek
> December 27, 2006
> 
> The Minister for Human Services, Joe Hockey, wants to convince Australians that the most complex and expensive IT project in Australian history - his proposed Access Card - is all about our convenience. It will, Hockey boasts, replace 17 other cards: for example the Medicare card, veterans' gold card and pensioner concession card.
> 
> Sounds great, but most people don't have 17 cards. They have just one: their Medicare card. For most of us this means replacing our Medicare card with a supercharged version chock-full of personal information.
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/access-all-areas-is-on-the-cards/2006/12/26/1166895296883.html>

see also
<http://www.ramin.com.au/itgovernance/smartcard.html>

Marghanita
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