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Francesca Rudkin: My take on digital drivers licenses · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Okay, So here is my take around the Digital Services
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  Speaker 1: Minister due to Collins's plan to introduce digital driving licenses
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  Speaker 1: or driver licenses by the end of the year. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so on its own, you wonder what's the point of
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  Speaker 1: moving in this direction when we have perfectly good driver's
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  Speaker 1: licenses in our back pocket. But it's not really about
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  Speaker 1: the driver's license. It's about creating an app like New
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  Speaker 1: South Wales has, which allows people to do a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of government related transactions simply and easily from their phones.
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  Speaker 1: Things like your car registration, are you waff paying road
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  Speaker 1: user charges and road tolls, both of which we might
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  Speaker 1: be doing a little bit more of in the future.
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  Speaker 1: Inland revenue and tax payments can be dealt with through it,
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  Speaker 1: dealing with superannuation and benefit payments, even maybe paying parking tickets.
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  Speaker 1: You can do the lot right, which makes sense. We
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  Speaker 1: deal with so much of this online already, why not
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  Speaker 1: put it all in one place. So New South Wales
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  Speaker 1: they rolled out the digital driver's License in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nineteen and today over eighty percent of drivers use
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  Speaker 1: their driver's license via the app. It is good to
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  Speaker 1: see though that the Minister acknowledges. We need to have
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  Speaker 1: choice around this. A digital license system can't exclude those
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  Speaker 1: who don't have access to the necessary technology or simply
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  Speaker 1: prefer to keep things offline. Groups like the elderly, rural
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  Speaker 1: communities and areas with poor connectivity and people's low incomes
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  Speaker 1: could be disproportionately affected by a full switch to digital,
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  Speaker 1: So it's good Keywis will be given the choice to
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  Speaker 1: go digital or stay with the plastic. Digital licenses may
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  Speaker 1: be a modern, forward thinking move, but they do come
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  Speaker 1: with privacy risks, and we're just sort of talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: You can put all the security in place you like,
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  Speaker 1: but no system is entirely immune to cyber attacks or
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  Speaker 1: accidental or intentional leaks. As I mentioned, much of what
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  Speaker 1: we do is already online, and I appreciate the IDs
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  Speaker 1: will be decentralized and no data will be stored next
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  Speaker 1: personal information, But as that use of the app increases,
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  Speaker 1: will that remain the case. I am probably sounding a
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  Speaker 1: little paranoid, but after having almost fallen for a sophisticated
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  Speaker 1: scam which used hacked information, I'm not relaxed about the
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  Speaker 1: amount of data I have online. So if we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do this we've got to do it well. This
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  Speaker 1: can't be rushed, and it must be the best version
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  Speaker 1: it can be from the start. So I'm a person
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  Speaker 1: who never buys the first version of a piece of tech.
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  Speaker 1: I always give a provided time to sort out the kinks.
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  Speaker 1: I like to buy the second or third generation version.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel the same about the digital driver's licenses.
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  Speaker 1: I can understand how practical they could be. I can
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  Speaker 1: appreciate how bringing everything together could make dealing with numerous
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  Speaker 1: government departments easier. It will even make creating fake licenses
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  Speaker 1: harder for the kids to get into R and V.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm well up for it as long as I
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  Speaker 1: can make the move when I'm ready for more from
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