[LINK] "National digital ID set to change the way we prove who we are"

[Roger Clarke]

At 14:05 +1100 1/11/18, Christian Heinrich wrote:
>https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/national-digital-id-set-to-change-the-way-we-prove-who-we-are/news-story/4d9dc814d485cc84fb2520b9a488aea4

I posted to the privacy list a short time ago:

[It's necessary to read in behind the re-printed media release guff to work out what the message really is.

> ... After downloading the identity app, users will need to set up a password and provide personal details like name, date of birth, email, as well as information from driver's licences, passports and Medicare cards. ...
>Users will then be able to take a photo of themselves (selfie) and have it matched against existing government records. The enrollment photo will also prove liveness by connecting the dots on the screen using an applicant's face.


>Keenan said privacy and security had been core to the creation of the digital identity solution, which uses a "double bind" through the Department of Human Services' identity exchange.

[The credibility of that assurance is in enormous doubt.  But minor impediments like published information, consultative processes and technical audit reports don't feature in the process.]


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