Voluntary Digital ID ....

How come various state govts are requiring digital IDs to renew licences?

I guess we need to get used to the idea of a future social credit scheme too.

ection 74 Sub-section 1

Voluntariness

2.20Stakeholders were supportive of the voluntary nature of the bill and emphasised the importance of a scheme which will allows Australians full access to services regardless of their choice regarding whether to create or use a digital ID.

2.21At the public hearing, witnesses were asked about their views on the voluntariness requirements in the Digital ID bill and whether these protections were sufficient protections for individuals. Various witnesses agreed that genuine voluntariness was essential for the proper operation of AGDIS.[17]

2.22Mr Ryan Black of the Tech Council of Australia expressed support for the protections outlined in the bill for encouraging voluntariness of digital ID, and stated that ‘there is an inherent commercial incentive for a voluntary approach to [digital ID]’.[18]

Express consent

2.23The digital ID bill requires that individuals provide express consent to create a digital ID and before any information about that individual is collected or used by, or disclosed to, a service they wish to access.[19]