The Albanese government settled on an outdated privacy framework for long-overdue laws to govern its document and face matching systems, despite acknowledging the protections are inadequate.
That’s according to the Human Rights Commissioner, as well as other legal and digital rights groups, who have called for strong privacy protections to be built into the Identity Verification Services (IVS) Bill, like has been done for the forthcoming Digital Identity Bill.
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