Australia’s Digital ID Is Set To Launch This Summer

The following report is by Biometric Update:

First introduced to Parliament in November, Australia’s Digital ID Bill reached its closing date in late January after receiving submissions from business and financial groups as well as civil rights organizations. Currently, the government is in consultation with the states, ChannelNews Australia reports.

The Department of Finance told the media outlet that the new system will allow users to choose their preferred digital ID provider for accessing government and private services. Private organizations can apply to be accredited as digital ID services from the Trusted Digital Identity Framework” (TDIF), the federal government’s accreditation framework. Among companies that have already received accreditation are Australia Post, MasterCard and OCR Labs (IDVerse) while banks and other institutions have expressed interest.

The legislation will enable the expansion of the Australian Government Digital ID System to include state, territory and private sector organizations that choose to participate.

A spokesperson says.

The national digital ID will function like an expanded version of MyGovID, which Australians already use to access the Australian Taxation Office, Centrelink and Medicare. The country is planning on keeping other digital IDs such as those created by governments of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and possibly others. Officials dismissed concerns that it would lead to duplication with the state-level digital ID system.

All accredited digital ID systems will be expected to observe the same three levels of security standards with the highest one including registering user biometrics. A user will be able to generate a multipoint image on a device that will be checked against their passport photo and, in the future, driver’s license. Establishing your credentials only needed to be done once, officials say.

Once the legislation passes through the federal parliament, the new national digital ID will roll out in several phases, according to an explainer published by consumer protection group Choice.

During the first phase, the government will work on setting up a regulator and expanding its use. In phase two, local state and territory digital IDs will be used to access Commonwealth services while phase three will see myGovID used in the private sector. In the final phase, Australians will be able to use privately created digital IDs that have received accreditation for accessing some government services.

Australia’s new digital ID system has promised to solve previous ID systems’ vulnerability to scams and fraud which has cost the government billions of dollars.

Personal data supplied to receive the new digital ID will be encrypted, making it difficult for third parties to view or share it, including the digital identity provider itself. Since a wide range of public and private organizations will supply digital IDs, data will not be gathered in a central database that criminals can target.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

The digital ID is needed in order to better properly facilitate the CBDC. Last year in an article I covered an interview with economics Professor Richard Werner, the man who introduced the economic philosophy of “Quantitative Easing” (QE1 and QE2), who posited the notion that digital IDs are really needed before the CBDC thing is full-go.

There is an argument to be made, and that is the entire Covid scam may have been run in order just to prepare things for the CBDCs and the real goal, or the big prize to them, [are] the CBDCs.

There is one step before then: they need digital IDs.

Werner explained

The digital IDs, CBDCs, tokenization are the next necessary building blocks and stepping stones for the coming mark of the beast. We are not there yet but we’re getting there.

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Revelation 13:16-18

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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