> 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 (:-)} -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
