The Albanese government settled on an outdated privacy framework for long-overdue laws to govern its document and face matching systems, despite acknowledging the protections are inadequate.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.
The IVS Bill was introduced to Parliament last month to fill a legal vacuum ahead of the expansion of the government’s digital ID scheme, which will rely on the services, such as the one-to-one face matching system, known as the Face Verification Service.
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