Hundreds of millions of Australian identity checks may have been illegally conducted, Senate hears

Albanese government is rushing through laws to underpin the ID verification service, say experts who have privacy concerns

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Hundreds of millions of identity checks under the federal government’s ID verification service may have been illegally conducted, with the Albanese government rushing through legislation to underpin the service.

Legislation to allow the identity verification service was abandoned by the former Morrison government in 2019 after the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security recommended it be redrafted over concerns there were insufficient privacy safeguards for the proposal.

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