[LINK] Australian Digital Driving Licenses

[Roger Clarke]

> On 5/6/22 09:31, Roger Clarke wrote: 
>> ... With the massive slide during recent decades towards driver's
>> licence as general-purpose identity authenticator ...
> 
> If someone is asking for a driver's license as ID, good luck to them.
> Even so, you need multiple means of ID for something like opening a bank
> account, and all these would need to all be consistently altered.

It would be a pity if you can't use as passport as one of them.

According to a letter to SMH yesterday, the NSW driver licensing agency
refused a passport as an authenticator when trying to correct the name
on the licence (by inserting the missing middle-name).  Strange.


>> Oh, and confiscation of the licence appears more likely than arrest ...
> 
> The penalty for presenting a fake drivers license varies around
> Australia. You might get just a few hundred dollars fine, or seven years
> in jail, if is part of committing a serious crime, such as fraud.
> https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-1900-040#sec.192K

Fine in principle, but intent is notoriously hard to prove, so a
successful prosecution would only be likely to be achieved if the
indictable offence were proven - in which case any prison term would
probably be served in parallel with the term for the indictable offence.

I rest by bush-lawyer's case  (:-)}


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