Australia Plots Digital ID Launch For This Year

The Australian government is planning a nationwide digital ID launch this year as the Digital ID Bill finished its final stage at the end of January. The national digital ID will essentially serve as a comprehensive version of MyGovID that Australians currently utilize for the Australian Taxation Office, Centrelink and Medicare access; it will be enlarged to encompass state, territory and private sector organizations opting to participate. Consolidated identification allows for more tracking, sets the stage for a social credit score system and increases risk of hacking.

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The Australian government is planning a nationwide digital ID launch, which is tentatively set for this year.

While it could be delayed for logistical reasons, it’s clear that the government is fully intent on pushing a new digital ID agenda in the country.

Having first entered Parliament last year, the Digital ID Bill in Australia finished its final stage at the end of January, garnering input from business and finance groups. The country’s authorities are currently communicating with the individual states.

An announcement from the Department of Finance revealed that the novel system would empower users to select their preferred digital ID provider for the accessibility of both government and private services. Private entities can apply for accreditation to provide digital ID services under the Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF), which is the government’s recognition framework.

As stated by an official spokesperson, the legislative step will set in motion the enlargement of the Australian Government Digital ID System to encompass state, territory and private sector organizations opting to participate.

The national digital ID will essentially serve as a comprehensive version of MyGovID that Australians currently utilize for the Australian Taxation Office, Centrelink and Medicare access. The strategy to retain other digital IDs issued by other state governments.

An individual user will have the capability to create a multipoint image on a device, to be validated against their passport photo or eventually, their driver’s license. Officials state that users need only establish their credentials once.

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Australia Is Adopting China’s Surveillance and Tracking Technology to Spy on Its Citizens



The city of Darwin, Australia is integrating Chinese surveillance technology that is used in its tyrannical social credit system for a new program Down Under called ‘virtual fences’ that will track people, their movements around the city, the websites they visit, and what apps they use. The monitoring will be done mainly by artificial intelligence, but will alert authorities based on set triggers.

On this May day, alarm bells should be sounding as China’s internet
standards and surveillance grid is spreading around the globe.

As reported by the Epoch Times,
the city of Darwin in Australia is preparing to integrate with Chinese
surveillance technology that powers its social credit system. “Virtual
fences” will alert authorities of unauthorized activity.

According to the report, the technology is based on systems being
used in Shenzhen, China where the social credit score is tracking
Chinese citizens.

As reported, the system will be powered by artificial intelligence tracking individuals movements,

“In Darwin, they’ve already
constructed “poles, fitted with speakers, cameras and Wi-Fi,” according
to NT News, to monitor people, their movements around the city, the
websites they visit, and what apps they use. The monitoring will be
done mainly by artificial intelligence, but will alert authorities
based on set triggers.

Just as in China, the surveillance
system is being branded as a “smart city” program, and while Australian
officials claim its operations are benign, they’ve announced it
functions to monitor cell phone activity and “virtual fences” that will
trigger alerts if people cross them.”

This is happening as free speech is being crushed. CBS news recently promoted the idea that the United States should look to countries like Australia for a model for “regulating speech”.

Under the backdrop of “Russian meddling” and “fake news” narratives
there is an expectation among tech elites and globalists that internet
regulation and law in the west will yield to the Chinese model of
cyberspace.

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