21-01-2013, 03:52 PM
The Access Card
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The Need for Social Control
Government Services and Welfare Programs must be conceived and managed in order to:
achieve their economic and social aims
control waste
control abuse
Each service necessarily involves personal data
A limited amount of inter-organisational data comparison is needed to achieve the aims
Origins of the 'Access Card'
Lobbying of the Howard Governmentby a Small Coterie of Businessmen
Support for a National ID Scheme Projectfrom national security and law enforcement
Failed Medicare Card Replacement Project
Opportunity provided by Qld Premier Beattie
Hockey's Ambitions
Ruddock dropped the overt National ID scheme in favour of Hockey's covert 'Access Card'
Reasons for Opposing the National ID Scheme
Privacy-Invasiveness
Onerousness
Intentional Lack of Protections
A 'Honey-Pot' Inviting Abuse
High Costs
Low Benefits
Vast Extension of the Power of the State through a Single, Consolidated ID
'Access Card' Politics
Refusal to publish the Cost-Benefit Analysis, subsequent partial release, currently denied under FoI
Sleight of hand used in talking about financial benefits
Refusal to publish the original PIA
Resignation of the original Task Force Headsbecause their Recommendations were ignored
Hockey's "pilots are for aircraft"
Use of the Fels 'Privacy Task Force' as a shield, avoiding any form of engagement with the public,yet with the Minister declining its Recommendations
DHS Secretary blunders before the Senate C'tee
Senate C'tee, incl. Govt members, rubbishes the Project
Replacement of the DHS Secretary
Failure to reflect submissions (or even read them?)
Attempt to let tenders without Parliamentary approval
Does the APF Have Something Positive To Say?
The APF supports specific, balanced proposals to meet important objectives re welfare benefits administration and, separately, health benefits administration
The APF supports the appropriate use of smartcard technology to achieve those objectives
Features of an appropriate scheme are:
No multi-purpose identifier; Retain multiple single-purpose identifiers for each agency and program
1 card with 17 zones; Each zone, identity and data-set to be securely separated from the others
No bureaucratically-imposed 'official name'
No Central Register of personal data