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The mandatory requirement little know about.
DIRECTOR ID DYSTOPIA
For the past few years, one pillar of the Digital ID agenda has gone largely unnoticed.
This specific piece of the puzzle revolves around businesses in Australia.
For those who don’t know, company directors are now required to create a unique ‘identification number’ through myGovID (now renamed to myID as of November) that stays with them for life.
The reason? Well, the government says it is to ‘crack down on illegal phoenixing’.
Illegal phoenixing occurs when “a new company, for little or no value, continues the business of an existing company that has been liquidated or otherwise abandoned to avoid paying outstanding debts, which can include taxes, creditors and employee entitlements,” according to ASIC.
Slowly but surely, this Digital ID ‘solution’ has taken over as a mandatory requirement.
The identification number, also known as ‘Director ID’, is a unique 15-digit identifier that existing company directors must have to avoid a civil penalty of up to $1.1 million.
When it was first released, more than 1 million people faced becoming ineligible to run companies as directors scrambled to meet the one month deadline for submission (or face a small introductory fine).
It is the first public beta service to be offered by the Australian Business Register Services (ABRS), which is consolidating 32 business registers under the ‘modernising business registers program’.
The ABRS, which is overseen by the Australian Taxation Office and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, first began in 2017 as an effort for greater centralisation.
The program received more than half the $800 million set aside for the government’s ‘digital economy strategy’, highlighting just how important this scheme is to the larger move at play here.
The government says the Director ID scheme helps to ‘reduce illegal activity’, while ‘paving the way’ for “streamlined experiences in the future”. Or, in other words, biometric linking to other services.
Directors are asked to create a myID digital identity before applying for a Director ID, though there is also an option for directors to apply for an ID over the phone or using a paper form.
They are asked to create either a ‘standard’ or ‘strong’ identity.
But the fact still remains, whether having to sign up for myID first or having someone in an office do it for you in the backend, there is no option to bypass this requirement.
That is the primary concern with the Digital ID agenda — you will have to choice but to comply.
According to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Registries Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill, directors that fail to apply for an ID face a maximum penalty of 5000 units or $1.1 million.
Directors are already facing down the digital dystopia, and very soon, the average citizen will as well.
CENTRALISED DATABASE
I thought I would mention this because the other largest piece of Australia’s long-envisioned national Digital ID program is finally upon us, with legislation taking effect at the start of the month.
Digital ID credentials, like Director ID, will be integrated into the Australia’s government services app, myGov, which we have warned will be the centralised hub for years on the website.
The ATO has already begun trialling face verification technology in its myGov digital identity credentialing app, to allow users to create a “strong” identity as an option. Once again, just like Director ID.
It is ‘optional now’, but so was Director ID when first envisioned in 2019.
The government is planning to make the app a one-stop shop for all government services, and at present, passkeys (which will be assigned to each citizen) are soon to be accredited with ID credentials.
And, so there is no confusion between myGov (the regular services app) and myGovID (Digital ID credentials to log in), the latter was renamed myID from mid-November.
myID will be the biometric barrier that stops those who do not wish to submit their personal details to a central database from accessing government services like tax, Medicare and Centrelink.
Slowly, over time, biometric identification (your ID passkeys) will be the only way to gain access to many facets of modern life, in an ever-increasing digital world.
The agenda has already engulfed businesses in Australia, and is now coming for everyone.
Director ID should serve as a warning to us all.
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We need a change of Government with mostly Independants and minor parties to change our direction. This current Government has been fast tracking a lot because they know they will not return next election. People have woken up but not enough yet. Keep spreading the word.
If we keep on on like this and letting the government get away with this tyranny then soon we will not have any freedom at all. They try to get these bills passed ASAP in the hope that the general population will not have had time to know much about them, or passed in the dead of night with little to no real debate. Then they are told “this is the law now”. The population are never consulted with any of these important issues, in fact they would rather we stay dumb, unaware and ignorant. Here comes the ‘New world order’.