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.] -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:roger.cla...@xamax.com.au http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link