Service NSW has begun a limited upgrade of its Digital Driver Licence that adds stronger identity verification and consent-based sharing of licence details, with early access focused on selected residents […]

National Australia Bank plans to introduce encrypted mobile driver licence checks at selected Queensland branches this month, allowing customers to send verified licence information directly from their phone to the […]

Western Australia Police says its live facial recognition trial has recorded 79 arrests after scanning 905,117 faces across 77 deployments. The force’s three-month update lists 209 alerts and eight incorrect […]

Western Australia Police has taken its overt live facial recognition trial to Geraldton, marking the first regional deployment in a program that began in the Perth metropolitan area. The force […]

Valve has introduced credit-card age checks for Australian Steam users who want to view store pages for its R18+ computer games and other mature content. The Steam interface now asks […]

Epic Games will require Australian users to verify that they are at least 18 before purchasing or downloading R18+ games on the Epic Games Store, introducing age checks supplied by […]

Australians will be able to block the use of their driver licence or passport for identity checks under IDLock, a service the federal government will run through myGov. The service […]

New South Wales will make facial recognition mandatory at the entrance of gaming rooms across the state, tying the technology to a new register that lets a person bar themselves […]

The OpenID Foundation has urged Australia to make interoperability the central design priority as the country builds out its verifiable-credentials framework, warning that the choices made now will shape whether […]