digital ID

The potential positives of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making are numerous, but human design and oversight are necessities.

Scattered traces of personal information, along with the rise of artificial intelligence technologies, leaves people increasingly vulnerable to identity theft and data hacks.

Finland’s AuroraAI is perhaps the most ambitious government AI project that never quite made it over the starting line.

What might Australia’s digital ID scheme mean for privacy, social cohesion and civil liberties?

The Privacy Act definition of personal information is expanding, with an individual’s ‘attributes’ becoming part of the process.

The Baltic nation of Estonia has a reputation for being the most advanced digital government in the world – and it’s had a digital ID scheme for more than two decades.

So far, the security benefits of an Australia-governed system of digital identification have been clouded by allergy to a national ID.

The digital birth certificate trial complements the development of digital identity systems by both the NSW and commonwealth governments.

The Albanese government finally secured the required support for enabling legislation for the digital ID system in the senate.

Banks get speedier access, lose racial profiling; the public gets de-activation, data-retention limits, and alternatives for digital ID refuseniks.

Cost shifting aside, what are banks doing about digital exclusion? Not everyone has access to hip apps for real time cash transfers.

Independent and small competitors could be forced out of the online liquor market as transaction costs of $2 create merchant sticker shock.

Clubs Australia wants venues to be able to hold onto patrons’ caches of biometric mugshots, to avoid being sanctioned for problem punters.