Harmonizing work planned for Australian digital driver’s licenses

An association of Australia and New Zealand government officials say they are preparing to harmonize digital identification documents.

The group, Austroads, says it will publish an expression of interest to draw out digital credentialling service vendors. The task is to make sure digital ID documents offer uniform, acceptable privacy protections and mutual recognition throughout Australia (New Zealand is not the subject of this project.)

The leader of Queensland’s digital license pilot, Christopher Goh has joined the effort.

Austroads has …

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