Tag: myGov

Verifiable credentials: Shorten hunts for ‘fool’s gold’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s largest bank and a medical centre have signed on to test Canberra’s verifiable credentials project, which is promising to harden the nation against cyber attacks and scams by...

Govt’s online identity app gets a rebrand

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Australian government’s digital identity app will be rebranded within months to avoid confusion with the popular services app ahead of the mass expansion of a $1 billion national...

Govt unveils ‘world leading’ identity exchange

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government will next year trial a digital identity exchange scheme that it says offers European-level data control, reducing the honeypot of personal information held by businesses and...

Digital credential sharing resurrected by govts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A plan to share digital credentials across state boundaries is moving forward after a hiatus, with federal and NSW government service delivery agencies completing a “rapid discovery exercise” to...

myGov newborns register rollout starts in Canberra

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
myGov has become a one-stop shop for birth registrations in Canberra, with Services Australia kicking off a new trial just weeks after assuming responsibility for ‘life event’ services. Government...

myGov passkey logins among world’s first

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
myGov has become one of the world’s first digital government services to roll out passkeys, removing the need for users to use a password to log into the platform....

Feds revive myGov credential sharing efforts

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has resumed talks with the states and territories on a stalled plan to bring digital drivers licences to myGov in exchange for access to digital Medicare...

Like Nike: myGov ready and waiting for personalisation push

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Services Australia is ready to deliver personalised services to millions of Australians but can’t get around legislation preventing information sharing across government, the agency’s tech chief said Monday. The...