there is no way the aus government can make a government id verification thingy within the next five years, imo
people seem to think the government has a big file on every person containing everything about them. this is not the case. what the government has is 10,000 database tables with one piece of information each. none of them are labeled sensibly and if they're owned by different departments they do Not talk to each other
#granted. my experience is with testing. using the test databases#which solely contain data created for testing. we can't use real people data#(we cant even look at real people data unless there's a real reason for it. i agree with this)#anyway the test data is janky as hell#but really like: things are Not hooked up to each other automatically!#this is annoying when like you have to provide the same identity docs over and over#but also like. it makes it really hard to do widescale government surveillance. so its a good thing overall