Tag: Digital Transformation Agency

‘Nobbled’ DTA languishing under Finance

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Opposition services minister Paul Fletcher says the Digital Transformation Agency’s role has been diminished as part of a backwards step on government technology and digital services that will need...

Cath Thompson on the long road to digital trustworthiness

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Catherine Thompson had spent a career in corporate procurement roles, among other things, before she landed in 2015 at the Digital Transformation Office. These were heady days for digital...

Facial recognition, digital ID laws could arrive in parallel

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Controversial facial recognition laws previously rejected by Parliament’s intelligence and security committee could be reintroduced in “parallel” with the Albanese government’s new digital identity legislation. As the timeline for...

DTA loses digital ID program responsibilities

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Department of Finance has assumed control of the federal government $600 million-plus digital identity program, taking policy duties from the Digital Transformation Agency in the latest carve up...

DHS watered down data scientists’ advice on robodebt

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The department responsible for robodebt tried to water down independent advice from data experts and asked the government technology agency to enhance the illegal scheme’s “user experience” in less...

Govt AI guidance creates ‘arbiters of acceptable’: AIIA

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal government guidance developed to provide public servants with a steer on the use of generative artificial intelligence entrusts agencies as the “arbiter of what is acceptable”, according to...