Digital identity providers could play a major role in strengthening cyber security for Australians, according to Manager of Opposition Business Paul Fletcher.
Businesses will now be required to submit cyber security risk reports to government agencies once a year in response to the recent Medibank and Optus security breaches.
“The underlying problem with hacking of businesses is that businesses store a lot of your personal information – name, address, driver’s license,” Mr Fletcher told Sky News Australia. “If instead, we could establish our identity digitally where each of us had a so-called trusted digital identity provider.
“One of the advantages of that system would be, in this case, Telstra or Optus or the bank would not keep a whole lot of detailed personal information about you or me – it would have received the digital certificate that would simply verify I was who I was claiming to be.”
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