Philosopher Prince of Broadband Malcom Turnbull is floating the idea of a "Trusted ID" system for entities to use when conducting business with the .gov.
The Framework will be developed in collaboration with the private sector. The objective is to give individuals and business users the choice of using accredited government and third-party identity provider information to access government services as part of a federated model. This will, in turn, generate trust in digital identities more broadly across the economy. It will also lead to improved access to services, new products and markets for consumers and industry, and more productive ways of doing business.
Source: https://www.dto.gov.au/design-guides/guide/identity-assuranc…
Naturally like an lot of other information on this website our taxes pay for it's full of buzzwords and the general theme that computers and networks make everything different and magical for some reason as it's "transformed" but to me that seems to say the private sector will be using this system to identify Australian citizens along with the gummints.
I guess this would complement the collection of everyone's metadata which has been mandated by law to start on 13th of October.
Presently the idea is being floated and one can leave feedback regarding it on the above linked website.
Will it have 5% off on Pay Wave for first six months ?