https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/senate-passes-australias-national-digital-id...


The Digital ID Bill 2023 has passed the Australian Senate with 33 members voting yes and 26 against.



Finance and Government Services Minister Katy Gallagher introduced amendments to the original legislation following a Senate Committee inquiry and consultation.

This will mean private businesses will now be able to apply to join the Australian government’s digital ID system within two years of royal assent.
The bill (pdf) establishes a national digital ID system and creates the framework for a centralised platform for Australians to verify their identity online.

Senators from the centre-right Liberal Party, United Australia Party, and nationalist One Nation opposed the bill, while Labor, Greens, the Jacqui Lambie Network, and former Liberal-turned-independent David Van voted for it.

It's the mark of the beast followed by more compulsory vaccinations which of course will be rubber stamped by the same crooks that the idiots keep voting in

The traitors pass bills and close down debate.

If they are scared of looking bad in the debate they close it down.

The politicians are traitors to the people.
We need to put them on trial in a people's court
with a gallows waiting outside parliament
and broadcast on live prime time TV in 4K video
with closeups and action slow motion replays.

Exposed: The Truth Behind Australia's Rushed Digital ID Law -

A Step Towards Totalitarian Control


Pauline Hanson's Please Explain







Mar 27, 2024
One Nation opposes digital ID.

Labor and its allies have rushed nine laws through the Senate today with no debate or scrutiny.

One of them has horrifying consequences for our future and our freedom: the digital ID law.

This law is designed to control the Australian people.

It’s a step towards the ‘15-minute cities’ already being imposed in the United Kingdom – heavily penalising anyone trying to travel outside their community.

This is a secretive international effort to establish a one-world government with no freedom and no capacity for dissent.

Let’s never forget how easily Australian governments imposed restrictions on us during the pandemic – we couldn’t go anywhere without a digital vaccination certificate.

Our freedom of speech was suppressed by governments and big tech.



A couple of years ago, because I was a Senator, I was not allowed to exchange Australian currency for Euros or British pounds.

UK political leader Nigel Farage had his bank account closed because activists disagreed with his views – he was ‘de-banked’.

All of your digital data will be owned by governments – you’ll have no physical proof you own anything, including your home.

We’ve seen how insecure this data always is – there have been nine breaches of Australians’ personal data in March 2024 alone.

Your new oppressors will tell you digital ID is in your best interests, that it will make things easier, that it will protect you from bad people.

And all it will cost is your freedom and right to privacy.

As Klaus Schwab told us: “You’ll own nothing and be happy.”

We are sheep being led to slaughter.

John Smith wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 1:19pm:


That's not the point dopey -

why shut down the debate and ram the legislation through?




Labor and Greens senators teamed up late Wednesday afternoon to ensure the Albanese Government’s controversial Digital ID Bill was forced through the nation’s House of Review without review.

Mar 28, 2024

Senator Malcolm Roberts has opposed the Digital ID bill.
Unfortunately this Bill has been rammed through the Senate without a word of debate,
thanks to Labor, Greens and David Van.





As much as the Government attempts to downplay the importance of introducing a single central digital identifier for all Australians, the truth is that this legislation is the most significant I've encountered during my time in the Senate.

It's the glue that holds together the digital control agenda by which every Australian will be controlled, corralled, exploited and then gagged when they speak or act in opposition.

The government knows Digital ID will be compulsory by the device of preventing access to government services, banking services, air travel and major purchases for any Australian who does not have a Digital ID.

The Digital ID will, in effect, create a live data file of your movements, purchases, accounts and associates containing reference to every piece of data being held in the private and government sector as a first step in a wider agenda. Tech giants have been building huge data files on every Australian for years.

Those huge data files that contain every website you visited, every post you made on their social media, everything you have ever bought online.  Keywords scanned from conversations overheard by Siri and Alexa in your home are now unmasked.

Until now, that data was anonymised using a unique identifier rather than name and address, which has always been there as well.  However, tech companies were not allowed to use it or share data with others that included the person's name and address.  Until Now.

Look for the tech giants to ask for your Digital ID as a requirement of using their service. The point of that exercise is to ensure they put the right name on the right data treasure trove.

This is why the Liberal Party have moved amendments to the Digital ID Bill to bring private corporations into this roll out earlier.  All those treasure troves of data worth billions, trillions, that have been accumulated for years illegally, by retailers, tech and data companies - all that unrealised profit just sitting there has been too much of a temptation for the Liberal Nationals to resist and is now joined with Labor in pushing Digital ID.

There will be no escape from the digital ID.

Australians now have a digital version of "papers please" and Australians will never be the same.

John Smith wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 2:02pm:



Don't call me goober -
have some respect you dopey bum and pay some taxes.

The Govt. makes their case here -
but who asked them to do it?
Did anyone here?


https://www.digitalidentity.gov.au/digital-id-bill


Legislation will enable the Commonwealth to partner with states,
territories and the private sector to create a better Digital ID experience for all Australians.

Legislation will:

    strengthen the existing voluntary Digital ID accreditation scheme
    provide legislation authority for the Australian Government's Digital ID System to expand
    strengthen privacy and consumer protections
    strengthen governance for Digital ID.


This legislation will ensure that providers of Digital IDs will be governed by legislation and
designed with privacy in mind so

    


https://www.webberinsurance.com.au/data-breaches-list

The Complete List of Data Breaches In Australia For 2018 – 2024

The Govt looking after your data:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-06/aboriginal-family-support-services-sa-gov...



Posted Wed 6 Dec 2023 at 6:37pm


An Aboriginal community organisation that provides services to children under government protection in South Australia has been hit by a data breach, impacting about a thousand community members.
Key points:

    Aboriginal Family Support Services (AFSS) detected the data breach on November 27
    Personal information, such as payment details and identification documents, may have been compromised
    The child protection department said there was no access to, or any breach of SA government IT systems

The Department for Child Protection said Aboriginal Family Support Services (AFSS), which is contracted by the South Australian government, detected the breach on November 27.

The department said personal information, such as payment details and identification documents, may have been compromised.

The Govt looking after your data:


https://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/8351349/federal-police-caught-up-in-huge-l...




By Alex Mitchell and Paul Osborne
Updated September 15 2023

Federal police officers have been caught up in a major cyber attack that's exposed a number of government departments.

The Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA) confirmed some members had their data breached in the hack on law firm HWL Ebsworth earlier this year.

The association did not reveal what data had been stolen but reports suggest it includes officer names and email addresses.

Bookstore chain Dymocks also confirmed it had been the subject of a major data breach, in a notice to customers released late on Friday.

More than 1.24 million Dymocks customers have had their names, address, phone, email, birth date and other information leaked and made available on the dark web.

The Govt looking after your data:

https://www.sgst.com.au/news/prom-camping-chaos-continues-with-data-breach-say-n...


THE private details of campers booking at Wilson’s Promontory’s Tidal River campground have had their user details compromised by the State Government’s new website.

The government website states, “Parks Victoria has temporarily paused camping and accommodation bookings for the 2023-24 season as we work with our booking system.”

Parks Victoria campsite booking system which crashed on its first day of operation, remains closed as a result.

The booking system remains unavailable for phone or online bookings.

The Govt looking after our defence data:


https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/defence-and-foreign-affairs/russian-cy...



June 17, 2023 - 6:56AM

There are concerns over data obtained by Russian cyber hackers from law firm HWL Ebsworth this week after more than 2.5 million documents were downloaded across multiple overseas jurisdictions.

The data breach is one of the largest in Australia's history and has seen key Defence and Foreign Affairs material compromised including files related to top-secret missile testing sites and sensitive information on Australia's engagement in the Indo-Pacific region.

Crisis talks are underway in Canberra as the government seeks to mitigate further risks.

This digitilisation just causes a whole new set of problems. Hackers will have it for breakfast, especially if they get their hands on quantum computers.

Right now, all over the world they're hoovering up and storing our presently encrypted information, waiting to crack the encryption when the quantum computers come along.

I think this digital Id is just a continuation of Labor's wet dream of social control since Bob Hawke's Australia card. So far, the system is voluntary but you know, they'll say this and that is happening and we need to tighten up. It's China's social credit system by a thousand cuts.

Polyphemus wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 4:15pm:



It won't be secure - that's a Govt lie.

Also -
was this part of Labor's election platform?
I don't remember it.
Where is the democracy?

Polyphemus wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 5:57pm:



3 years actually  - of despotism.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 2:12pm:


Thats why you're a goober. I'm still working at this time of the evening, and you've been bludging all day, week, month, year, decade

The house painting was years ago, Goober the Troll.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 6:32pm:



I thought you didn't like me calling you goober and yet you prove with every post why you are a goober. 


By the way dumbarse,  who says you don't paint at night 

Bobby. wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 6:43pm:


Do you say that because that is your job?

lee wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 9:29pm:


What are you blabbering about fool? You can't have bobby's village idiot title so stop trying.

Not worth worrying about.

We already have several digital IDs out there in the cyberworld.

Banks, VicRoads, My Health, Centrelink, the ADF, Telstra, eBay
and PayPal, My Government etc.

   All accessed using...   um...  digital IDs.      

https://thelightaustralia.com/assets/pdf/ISSUE-10-THE-LIGHT-FINAL-VERSION_SCREEN...

National Digital ID
Why Australia must reject it


By STEPHEN REASON

A national digital
ID is the precursor
to introducing
social credit scores,
carbon credit,
vaccine passports
and cashless
central bank digital
currency (CBDC).
It is the crucial
component to
establishing an AI-
surveillance state.
A national digital ID system
will soon be foisted upon all
Australians – if we let it.
It will be unlike existing digital
ID. The technology will be based
on the storage of blockchain-
encrypted biometrics that can be
securely scanned and decoded
upon request. Every Australian
will be required to submit a
combination of their unique
biological aspects (fingerprints,
palm print, iris scan, DNA, face
scan, etc) to a nationwide database.
Once these biometrics have
been gathered, they will comprise
a unique digital ID that can be
routinely accessed for verification
and identification purposes. You
will be instantaneously identifiable
everywhere; geolocated and
tracked; and with all personal data
harvested and analysed – every
aspect of your life, health and
finances will be openly scrutinised
by endless AI-profiling.

A biometric
digital ID will
enable a digital
tyranny. That
is its sole purpose.
The digital ID
concept was
originally formulated
and exported from Davos,
Switzerland. It forms the key
component of the World Economic
Forum’s (WEF) vision for the
‘fourth industrial revolution’
and their stated transhumanistic
objectives. They conspire to
permanently connect humans to
technology to achieve absolute
control of everyone and everything.

AusGeoff wrote on Mar 28^th, 2024 at 11:11pm:

Digital ID  :

https://twitter.com/AllBiteNoBark88/status/1773498807671746831?s=20

Here's a nice read about it:

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22le...

THE SENATE

DIGITAL ID (TRANSITIONAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) BILL 2023

OUTLINE

1.              The Digital ID (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2023 ( Bill ) will deal with matters arising from the enactment of the Digital ID Bill 2023 ( principal Bill ) as the Digital ID Act 2023 ( principal Act ). The principal Bill will:

a.        Legislate and strengthen a voluntary Accreditation Scheme for digital ID service providers that wish to demonstrate compliance with best practice privacy, security, proofing and authentication standards.

b.       Legislate and enable the expansion of an Australian Government Digital ID System ( AGDIS ) for use by the Commonwealth, state and territory governments and eventually, the private sector. The use of AGDIS and participation of accredited service providers will be phased.

c.        Embed strong privacy and consumer safeguards, in addition to the Privacy Act 1988 to ensure people are protected.

d.       Establish governance arrangements including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as the Digital ID Regulator and an expanded role for the Information Commissioner as Privacy Regulator.


FINANCIAL IMPACT

4.       The analysis in the regulatory impact statement number 1801 for the principal Bill applies to the compliance measures in this Bill.

however these are offset by benefits across the whole of economy, estimated to be up to $3.3 billion per annum.

Quote:


The market. It's much easier than carrying around a birth certificate,  driver's licence and passport.

Digital ID is nothing more than the government gaining ever more control of your lives. It is giving itself more capacity to know everything about you, control your life, harvest you, and shut you down in various ways when it deems fit- all at its fingertips.

It's nothing less than fascism. It reminds me of movies like X-115, Brazil, 1984, Total Recall.

"We're here to help you".......Don't believe it.

Ja, ja digital Id, please!

You just have to laugh when our politicians and media carry on about the Chinese social credit system and beat their chests and say thank God we're a democracy. Err, no, governments in the "free world" are doing exactly the same thing- mass surveillance, the stamping out of free thought, free speech and criticism. Our so-called "democracy" is  China with the thinnest disguise.

But who's to blame? You, me and every other clown who lets this pass.

Polyphemus wrote on Mar 30^th, 2024 at 10:51am:



Armaguard is going bankrupt -
we could lose cash as soon as next week.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-28/armaguard-rejects-funding-deal-cash-trans...


Armaguard rejects $26 million lifeline to avoid insolvency as Coles ends pause on cash deliveries
By business reporters Kate Ainsworth and Nassim Khadem
Posted Thu 28 Mar 2024


    In short: Armaguard has rejected a lifeline deal worth $26 million to prevent it from becoming insolvent.
    It comes after Coles temporarily paused its use of the company over the Easter long weekend, but has since resumed using its services.
    What's next? The cash transportation company says it is working with its customers and is "confident" about its long-term sustainability.

Armaguard has rejected a $26 million lifeline offered by some of Australia's biggest companies to keep the cash transport company afloat.

The company, which is controlled by trucking magnate Lindsay Fox, had been given until the end of the day to either accept or reject a financial lifeline to avert insolvency, and to keep cash flowing to major businesses.

Major banks, supermarkets, Australia Post and retailer Wesfarmers proposed the $26 million rescue package last week to prevent Armaguard's possible collapse.

But the monopoly cash transporter refused to open its books — one of the conditions of the proposed package — and rejected the lifeline deal on Thursday, confirming it would instead work on its own financial solution.

"Armaguard confirms it is working constructively with all its customers, including its retail customers, banks and other key stakeholders regarding both short-term and long-term financial solutions for the industry to remain sustainable," Mick Cronin, Armaguard Group's chief executive said in a statement.

"Armaguard continues to operate its full suite of services and is confident that over the coming months, it will get the business onto a long-term sustainable footing with appropriate support from the industry."

Lol, the banks keep reducing the maximum amount you can withdraw from an ATM at time.

They're slowly turning the tap off- on your own money.

The banks work for and spy for the government.

We live in a pretend democracy.

The horror stories will start, and the government will go into cover-its-arse mode. We'll see a littered trail of broken lives from Robodebt to Digital ID.

When will people wake up to these psychopathic fascists?

Bobby. wrote on Mar 30^th, 2024 at 10:22pm:


All par for the course for this fascist social experiment.

Australians have just been given an Authoritarian slap in the face and there is nothing that can be done about it. Will be done about it.

Afterall. Australians are too dumb and lazy and will be done about it after a few weeks of just whinging and whining - as 'usual'. 

Australia has just been 'scammed'.

Much like countries who have had their economies scammed by things like Pyramid schemes, etc.

Australians will be 'cash-less' before they know it.

Bobby. wrote on Mar 30^th, 2024 at 11:15pm:



Moist conveyancing already needs identification verification. You've shown why lawyers offices can't be trusted with customers details you dumbarse.

Bob Hawke's "Australia Card" was a proposal for a national
identification card for Australian citizens and resident foreigners.
The proposal was made in 1985, and abandoned in 1987.

In the House of Representatives, ALP backbencher Lewis Kent
(Serbian-born Lajco Kapolnai) said the card was un-Australian
and that it would be more appropriate to call it a "Hitlercard or Stalincard". 

Interestingly, it was alleged that Kent was "an agent of a foreign
power" and had ties to the UDBA (Uprava državne bezbednosti),
the Yugoslavian secret police.

We only need to look at the digitising of service records and the 'loss' of 172 sets to see how good this one will be.

I'm afraid there is in existence a small letter.......

Der Auschtraliakarte ...

AusGeoff wrote on Apr 6^th, 2024 at 9:34am:



They brought it back now but 10 times as bad
and they rammed it through the Senate by shutting down debate.

That's what passes for a democracy in Australia.

It's true:

https://www.bupa.com.au/help/mybupa/troubleshooting/how-to-register-for-mybupa


Important message to Bupa Members

We’ve changed the way you access myBupa. If you have a myBupa account and haven't signed in since 29 August 2023 you need to re-register. Old logins won't work.

Setting up your Bupa digital identity is part of the registration process.


But you don't need to make a video of yourself:

https://cairnsnews.org/2024/05/03/a-triad-of-tyranny-compliments-of-albanese-and...




By Senator Malcolm Roberts

Three Bills are being rammed through the Senate to create legislation that will transform the UN-WEF plans for surveillance and control into a dystopian reality in Australia.

The first is the Identity Verification Services Bill 2023, which is designed to permit the use of biometric data to locate and track citizens and normalise it. The second, the Digital Identity Bill 2023, will ensure Australians have no choice but to succumb to setting up a digital ID. The third is the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2023. This is the censorship tool to make sure both the media and social media carries government sanctioned opinions only. The government in power is exempted and free to be the Ministry of Truth, spreading misinformation or disinformation. Remember how well that went during the COVID response?

The Driver’s Licence database is being upgraded to become the repository of your master identification record, which is already being used to establish your identity with a paper check and now with a facial scan.

I implored the Senate to vote against and to reject this Bill. This is the first of three Bills necessary to turn Australia into the world’s first World Economic Forum

https://wentworthreport.com/2024/05/17/the-australian-uniparty/


17 May 2024



    The truth is that our two-party system provides only the illusion of choice.

    The Liberal and Labor parties are, at the moment, pretty much the same … especially when it comes to their intention to sell Australians out to globalist interests.

Example 1:

    The Labor government is pushing hard with its plans for Digital ID to be rolled out across Australia.

    Many people are rightly horrified by the idea. A Digital ID will make every person in this country hackable and trackable. .. It’s the first necessary step in creating a system whereby every citizen could be given a social credit score that will determine their ability to buy and sell. In other words, their ability to take part in the free market.

    A Digital ID is dangerous and must be opposed. But who will oppose it?

    What most people don’t realise is that the sinister Digital ID policy being pushed by Labor is actually a Liberal Party idea. … It was initiated by the Coalition government back in 2015. They promoted the idea as a ‘safe, secure, and convenient way to prove who you are’. And then, in 2021, the Liberal Party circulated a draft bill with the Orwellian title … Trusted Digital Identity Bill. …

    The Liberals didn’t get a chance to introduce their ‘trusted’ bill into Parliament before losing the 2022 election, but their election commitments that year included, and I quote, ‘expansion of the Digital Identity system’.

    Now, of course, the Liberal Party claims to oppose Labor’s Digital ID. But they don’t oppose the pernicious concept, only Labor’s version.

    The Liberal Party’s website promises that they will, and I quote, ‘continue to invest in the expansion of the Digital Identity system’. …


Example 2:

    Did you know it was the Liberal Party who were the original architects of the free speech curtailing Misinformation and Disinformation Bill? I kid you not.

    Before the last election, the Morrison government announced that it would introduce legislation, and I quote, ‘to combat harmful disinformation and misinformation online’. …

    Of course, the Liberals pretend to call Labor’s almost identical bill ‘Orwellian’.

    But that’s only because they are in opposition. It’s the illusion of choice. As soon as the Liberals are back in office, they will resume their globalist obligations.

    Don’t take my word for it. Listen to them. Read it from their website: “…stronger laws to combat harmful disinformation and misinformation online by giving the media regulator stronger information-gathering and enforcement powers.”

    And at the weekend, Liberal Leader Peter Dutton said he would support Labor’s Misinformation and Disinformation Bill. …

Example 3:

    The office of the e-Safety Commissioner was created by the Liberal Party (Coalition) and the current e-Safety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was appointed by the Liberal Party.

Conclusion:

    Our two-party system of government is really one party with voters given only the choice of faces.

Same bureaucracy, no matter who you vote for.

Bobby. wrote on May 17^th, 2024 at 2:55pm:


This is what happens when the system is broken: our dog eat dog economy creates fraud and crime in a desperate battle for survival.


The governing party is faced with having to control this crime...hence the attraction of the Digital ID.   

Bobby. wrote on May 17^th, 2024 at 4:00pm:


Interestingly, apparently quantum AI (still being developed)  is promising to deliver unhackable internet.

Bobby. wrote on May 18^th, 2024 at 3:58pm:


Then I guess we are stuck with governments trying to manage crime in our dog eat dog economy.

thegreatdivide wrote on May 18^th, 2024 at 4:15pm:



I know for a fact that either in private industry or the Govt. -
if computers have IP or secret information on them they
are never connected to the internet.
They will be connected to a server for backups and connecting to other people
on the same project but that's all.
I don't see how any system on the internet can have 100% security in the long term.

thegreatdivide wrote on May 18^th, 2024 at 4:35pm:



Really?

which reply number?

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1645944963/900#900

thegreatdivide wrote on May 18^th, 2024 at 5:13pm:



read my Reply #92.

The Govt doesn't put it's own secret info on the internet -
not even private industry does.

Story now hidden on the internet but I remember it.

Back when Windows 95 came out in 1995 -
the NSA visited Bill Gates with a court order on the grounds of National Security-
to demand that he hand over the source code of Win95.
It also prevented him or any of his Microsoft employees from telling anyone else about it.
Bill Gates was very upset as it was his intellectual property and
the ultimate security of all Win95 users depended upon keeping the source code secret.
He either had to comply or he would be sent to jail
and they would take it anyway  - he complied.
That same order is still valid to this day so
the NSA has all the source code since 1995 - that's right -
WinXP, Win7, Win10, Win11 - all of it.

We can only speculate as to how the NSA would use that information but
it's possible that if they wanted to hack any computer they could send someone a fake
Windows update that would open their computer ports to hacking by the NSA.

They could also look for weakness in the source code to be able to exploit it.
Therefore if you have a windows computer the NSA can read all of your files remotely
without you ever knowing about - no matter how good your firewall is.
They may have passed that information to actors in other countries -
we'll never know.

That is why computers with secret information are never connected to the internet
and why especially Windows computers are not secure.

I think we all have aright to be paranoid given the appalling record of
cyber hacking – even from Govt. places:
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/breaking-digital-id-passed-in-australian

And private industry:
Australia has been roiled by several major hacks in recent years,
including on Optus, Medibank, Latitude Financial, law firm HWL Ebsworth
and stevedore DP World and now MediSecure.

Optus alone had over 10 million records stolen.
10 million customers hacked including me.
As we speak – we all have our names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses &
driver's license numbers out there in the hands of hackers,
all over the world just waiting to assume our identity and rip us off.