Yes it is becoming quite clear that the fear campaign driven by...

Yes it is becoming quite clear that the fear campaign driven by ignorant civil libertarians has caused the govt to strongly refute any suggestion that the AAC is an ID card by stealth. Sadly a politically damaging assumption that owning an ID card is a dangerous thing.

Where the govt has clearly failed is in its lack of leadership on this issue. If ever an ID card could be sold it is now. Yet luddites such as Bishop air their dimwitted concerns about the integrity or lack thereof of the data base.
If only the Bishops of this world understood the complete lack of security and accountability of how personal info is stored now, that in itself would be far more politically damaging.
Personal information, medical info for example is held by agencies that provide services funded by Medicare. Countless agencies that are bogged down with 10's of thousands of files of any and everyone that has sought medical service.
Files that are serviced and accessed by countless authorised and unauthorised individuals.The data, mostly files, are NOT securely stored and any person in the vicinity of such files can access them without raising so much as a glance.
Plus such files when they become burdensome are then transferred to warehouses. No guidelines are followed except to ensure that the transference is done quickly and cost effectively. The cheapest truck driver will do.
The boxes that the files are stored in fall apart thereby the contents spew open causing delay. There are no security procedures once the files are removed from the offices.

Next stop State records. Security? Forget it. Want to ensure files are stored in a manner that fascilitates access at a later date? Forget that also. You would be lucky to find it six months such is the nature of the 'medi dump'.
In one cleanout 6,500 boxes of files being transferred by 15 men without vetting either the men or their procedure. Out of sight out of mind.
Sorry to rave on but the point Iam slowly arriving at is if people really cared about the security of their medical records for example we would know just how our records are stored. We don't because we don't care.No one really cares.It is just a process.

With a database anyone that intends to access it must have clearance and is scrutinised by the managers of the system. Further they cannot access the data base without leaving evidence of the access.
Further the penalties for accessing data without just cause are going to be very heavy. In the US Max fine $250,000 max jail 10 years.
What is the penalty for a similar offence under our current system? What hope have we got of catching them?
The proposed data base security is light years ahead of shambolic practices that exist today.
Our personal info has never been more insecure than what it is at present.
Rave over.

cheers,
walt.
p.s. speak to your local GP about his/her access to personal info, the ins and outs. If you dare.Then consider any agency that is likely to hold your own personal info.