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representatives vote 2023-10-18#9
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- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2023-10-18.58.1) to agree with the bill's main idea. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to read the bill for a second time. This means they can now consider it in more detail.
- ### What is the bill's main idea?
- According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2324a/24bd24) (which is prepared by the non-partisan parliamentary library):
> * *An Australian Digital Identity (ID) system commenced in 2014 is beginning to take shape in Bills, such as the Statutory Declarations Amendment Bill 2023 before the Senate.*- > *Bills with similar purposes were introduced in 2018 and 2019 but lapsed with the dissolution of the House of Representatives in April 2019 and April 2022, respectively. ... The Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 (IVS Bill), as outlined in the Explanatory Memorandum, would:*
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> * *The Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 (IVS Bill) would: authorise 1:1 matching of identity through identity verification services; authorise in specific circumstances 1:many matching services through the Face Identification Service (FIS); and authorise the development, operation and maintenance of identity verification facilities.*- > * *authorise 1:1 matching of identity through the identity verification services, with consent of the relevant individual, by public and private sector entities. This will be enabled by:*
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> * *The IVS Bill restricts the authorised use of the Face Identification Service (FIS) to a ‘limited group of Commonwealth, State and Territory’ entities, including law enforcement agencies and ASIO and ASIS, for the sole purpose of ‘protecting the identity of shielded persons and their associates’ (clauses 16 and 17). Shielded persons are defined, but associates are not.*- >> * *the Document Verification Service which provides 1:1 matching to verify biographic information (such as a name or date of birth), with consent, against government issued identification documents;*
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- >> * *the Face Verification Service which provides 1:1 matching to verify biometric information (in this case a photograph or facial image of an individual), with consent, against a Commonwealth, state or territory issued identification document (for example, passports and driver licences); and*
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- >> * *the National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution which enables the FVS to conduct 1:1 matching against State and Territory identification documents such as driver licences.*
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> * *The use of the FIS to protect the identity of shielded persons and their associates will be monitored via an Annual Report to the Minister under clause 41. However, it is not clear if the entities oversighting the use of assumed identities by these agencies through receipt of an annual report, will also receive the annual report provided for in this Bill on the agencies’ use of FIS to protect people the identities shield.*- > * *authorise 1:many matching services through the Face Identification Service [FIS] only for the purpose of protecting the identity of persons with a legally assumed identity, such as undercover officers and protected witnesses. The protection of legally assumed identities will also be supported by the use of the FVS. All other uses of 1:many matching through the identity verification services will not be authorised, and will therefore be prohibited.*
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> * *Proposed subsection 46A(1) of the Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023 (Consequential Amendments Bill) provides for the use of computer programs to make automated decisions to disclose information, but does not include an equivalent to proposed subsection 56A(3) of the earlier Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019, providing for the Minister to change a decision made by a computer program where satisfied that the decision made by the computer program is incorrect.*>> * *In the Consequential Amendments Bill the interaction between proposed section 46A and proposed paragraph 46(1)(da) would allow the use of computer programs in disclosing personal information to a person participating in the DVS or the FVS, but appears to preclude that use for the proposed third category of identity verification services, that is, ‘any future services that may be used to share or match information relating the identity of a person’ (proposed paragraph 46(1)(da)(iii)).*- > * *authorise the responsible Commonwealth department – in this case the Attorney-General’s Department – to develop, operate and maintain the identity verification facilities (the DVS hub, the Face Matching Service Hub and the NDLFRS). These approved identity verification facilities will be used to provide the identity verification services. These facilities will relay electronic communications between persons and bodies for the purposes of requesting and providing identity verification services.*
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representatives vote 2023-10-18#9
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Bills — Identity Verification Services Bill 2023; Report from Federation Chamber- Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea
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<p class="speaker">Milton Dick</p><p>The question is that the bill be now read a second time.</p>-
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debates/?id=2023-10-18.58.1) to agree with the bill's main idea. In parliamentary jargon, they voted to read the bill for a second time. This means they can now consider it in more detail.
- ### What is the bill's main idea?
- According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2324a/24bd24) (which is prepared by the non-partisan parliamentary library):
- > * *An Australian Digital Identity (ID) system commenced in 2014 is beginning to take shape in Bills, such as the Statutory Declarations Amendment Bill 2023 before the Senate.*
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- > * *The Identity Verification Services Bill 2023 (IVS Bill) would: authorise 1:1 matching of identity through identity verification services; authorise in specific circumstances 1:many matching services through the Face Identification Service (FIS); and authorise the development, operation and maintenance of identity verification facilities.*
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- > * *The IVS Bill restricts the authorised use of the Face Identification Service (FIS) to a ‘limited group of Commonwealth, State and Territory’ entities, including law enforcement agencies and ASIO and ASIS, for the sole purpose of ‘protecting the identity of shielded persons and their associates’ (clauses 16 and 17). Shielded persons are defined, but associates are not.*
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- > * *The use of the FIS to protect the identity of shielded persons and their associates will be monitored via an Annual Report to the Minister under clause 41. However, it is not clear if the entities oversighting the use of assumed identities by these agencies through receipt of an annual report, will also receive the annual report provided for in this Bill on the agencies’ use of FIS to protect people the identities shield.*
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- > * *Proposed subsection 46A(1) of the Identity Verification Services (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2023 (Consequential Amendments Bill) provides for the use of computer programs to make automated decisions to disclose information, but does not include an equivalent to proposed subsection 56A(3) of the earlier Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019, providing for the Minister to change a decision made by a computer program where satisfied that the decision made by the computer program is incorrect.*
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- > * *In the Consequential Amendments Bill the interaction between proposed section 46A and proposed paragraph 46(1)(da) would allow the use of computer programs in disclosing personal information to a person participating in the DVS or the FVS, but appears to preclude that use for the proposed third category of identity verification services, that is, ‘any future services that may be used to share or match information relating the identity of a person’ (proposed paragraph 46(1)(da)(iii)).*
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