A privacy advocate group in Australia has slammed the government's plans for a new digital identity system, expressing “serious concern” about federated identity.In a statement, the Australian Privacy Foundation states the process has been “seriously deficient” and conducted “in a context of increasing distrust of government”The process, which is being led by the Federal Government's Digital Transformation Office, aims to create an online identity verification process – particularly in cases of sensitive data.”Currently users have to identify themselves again and again when they interact with different government departments, and we want to find a solution that fixes this problem,” the DTO stated in plans.”Our project also involves developing a Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF),” the DTO revealed at the commencement of the project, stating there would be consultation with “a wide range” of public and private sector stakeholders.But the APF complains that civil society isn't being consulted in the process.”A single meeting has now been held, but materials were withheld until the last moment, and the very few advocates present had limited opportunity to gain clarifications, and virtually none to provide feedback”.The project “harbours enormous threats to individuals, and to society as a whole”, warning the whole thing has “a very high” risk of failure.
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