The plan to combine personal details into one digital ID
Feb 23, 2024 19:19:48 GMT 7
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Post by bear on Feb 23, 2024 19:19:48 GMT 7
The source isn't the greatest; but when I read it's optional I was immediately taken back to the Digital Health Record and how DSPers were simply slapped on it. I don't know if anyone here got off of it but I tried and failed. Digital ID's are also quite topical globally currently. Cheers 🐻
The government's plan to combine your personal details into one digital ID
When Medibank was hacked in October 2022, more than 9.7 million Australians had their details compromised.
That was less than a month after 9.8 million Aussies were impacted by the cyber attack on Optus, and it was just one of close to 3000 notifiable breaches in Australia since 2020.
The Federal Government's answer is for every Australian to have just one digital ID, which would put all of your personal details into one place, restricting the oversharing of personal information.
Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neill is part of the team proposing a digital ID., that includes passports, driver's licenses, taxes, tolls, healthcare, welfare, bills and banking - eventually virtually everything can be in a digital ID.
But are Australians ready to trust the government when it comes to our personal details?
Privacy Commissioner of Australia from 1999 until 2004, Malcolm Crompton, said Australia's new digital ID system would be a one- stop shop to verify who we are.
"Instead of you having to have many passwords, many signings into many enrolments in lots of different systems, you can do this one system for more and more of it, including government, state, government, federal bank, telco, utilities, energy, and so forth," Crompton said.
So one password makes it simpler, but does that mean safer?
"It's going to significantly reduce the amount of times the information about you is stored by different organisations, the amount of times it's all moved around, and each of the storages and move around is a vulnerability that can be attacked by the bad guys," Crompton said.
"By making this simpler system, it will significantly reduce where these guys can use their badness they're going to try."
The digital ID bill was pushed through parliament on the very last sitting day before the pollies went on their Christmas break.
The proposal for a digital ID was pushed through parliament late last year; leading up to that there was time for public submissions, which found organisations were largely supportive of the proposal.
But 23 anonymous submissions expressed concerns about the security of the system, floating suggestions of a hidden agenda, foreign influences and a potential to be "fraught with cyber security risks".
Crompton warned Aussies not to listen to conspiracy theories about sinister government motives.
"This is not the Australia card by any objective analysis. Full stop," he said.
"It's not going to be Big Brother by any objective analysis. Full stop."
The scheme is designed to make Australians' idenitities safer, according to the government.
The scheme will also be completely voluntary, Crompton explained.
"What they're doing is putting into the law, the strongest protections possible against compulsory use, such that it will stand unless or until a future Parliament makes the change and that's democracy in action," he said.
If you don't want a digital ID, it's business as usual.
"This is an add on to make your life easier if you want to make it easier this way," Crompton said.
"Because if you are currently doing physical banking by turning up to the branch or pulling cash out of the machine, or you're doing online transactions with a banking app, you could still do it."
But he admitted the Digital ID wouldn't be perfect.
Crompton said the proposal could face difficulties given the underfunding of regulators. (Nine)
"It will be given a hard time in the Senate which is a good thing, because then we should be able to straighten out any of the weaknesses that are in the bill," he said.
"And one of the weaknesses that I've publicly talked about at the moment is the access by law enforcement agencies and national security agencies is too easy.
"And I would say that I think one of the great potential weaknesses in this system is underfunding of the regulators.
"They're getting better funded, but they're not well enough funded yet ...that is a significant risk."
A Senate committee is due to report back on the proposal by the end of the month.
Watch the full video in the player above.
9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/the-governments-plan-to-combine-your-personal-details-into-one-digital-id/03d62a7b-3c58-4e9a-8ce1-97b1712d2084
The government's plan to combine your personal details into one digital ID
When Medibank was hacked in October 2022, more than 9.7 million Australians had their details compromised.
That was less than a month after 9.8 million Aussies were impacted by the cyber attack on Optus, and it was just one of close to 3000 notifiable breaches in Australia since 2020.
The Federal Government's answer is for every Australian to have just one digital ID, which would put all of your personal details into one place, restricting the oversharing of personal information.
Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neill is part of the team proposing a digital ID., that includes passports, driver's licenses, taxes, tolls, healthcare, welfare, bills and banking - eventually virtually everything can be in a digital ID.
But are Australians ready to trust the government when it comes to our personal details?
Privacy Commissioner of Australia from 1999 until 2004, Malcolm Crompton, said Australia's new digital ID system would be a one- stop shop to verify who we are.
"Instead of you having to have many passwords, many signings into many enrolments in lots of different systems, you can do this one system for more and more of it, including government, state, government, federal bank, telco, utilities, energy, and so forth," Crompton said.
So one password makes it simpler, but does that mean safer?
"It's going to significantly reduce the amount of times the information about you is stored by different organisations, the amount of times it's all moved around, and each of the storages and move around is a vulnerability that can be attacked by the bad guys," Crompton said.
"By making this simpler system, it will significantly reduce where these guys can use their badness they're going to try."
The digital ID bill was pushed through parliament on the very last sitting day before the pollies went on their Christmas break.
The proposal for a digital ID was pushed through parliament late last year; leading up to that there was time for public submissions, which found organisations were largely supportive of the proposal.
But 23 anonymous submissions expressed concerns about the security of the system, floating suggestions of a hidden agenda, foreign influences and a potential to be "fraught with cyber security risks".
Crompton warned Aussies not to listen to conspiracy theories about sinister government motives.
"This is not the Australia card by any objective analysis. Full stop," he said.
"It's not going to be Big Brother by any objective analysis. Full stop."
The scheme is designed to make Australians' idenitities safer, according to the government.
The scheme will also be completely voluntary, Crompton explained.
"What they're doing is putting into the law, the strongest protections possible against compulsory use, such that it will stand unless or until a future Parliament makes the change and that's democracy in action," he said.
If you don't want a digital ID, it's business as usual.
"This is an add on to make your life easier if you want to make it easier this way," Crompton said.
"Because if you are currently doing physical banking by turning up to the branch or pulling cash out of the machine, or you're doing online transactions with a banking app, you could still do it."
But he admitted the Digital ID wouldn't be perfect.
Crompton said the proposal could face difficulties given the underfunding of regulators. (Nine)
"It will be given a hard time in the Senate which is a good thing, because then we should be able to straighten out any of the weaknesses that are in the bill," he said.
"And one of the weaknesses that I've publicly talked about at the moment is the access by law enforcement agencies and national security agencies is too easy.
"And I would say that I think one of the great potential weaknesses in this system is underfunding of the regulators.
"They're getting better funded, but they're not well enough funded yet ...that is a significant risk."
A Senate committee is due to report back on the proposal by the end of the month.
Watch the full video in the player above.
9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/the-governments-plan-to-combine-your-personal-details-into-one-digital-id/03d62a7b-3c58-4e9a-8ce1-97b1712d2084
